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Office 2016 Will Boost Productivity of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, ERP

by Dann Anthony Maurno
Assistant Editor, MSDW

Satya NadellaWith the release of Office 2016 Microsoft has "set a bold ambition to reinvent productivity and business process in this mobile-first, cloud-first world," wrote CEO Satya Nadella on the Official Microsoft Blog earlier this week.

Microsoft's productivity story remains centered around Office, but it is no longer limited to individual productivity tools; Microsoft's Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team, writes that Office 2016 "also marks a new model for delivery, where subscribers can expect to get more frequent updates with new features and improvements" - much like Microsoft is already delivering on the Dynamics side.

Alongside Office 2016 for Windows, Microsoft released Office 2016 for Mac as a one-time purchase option, along with several new and enhanced Office 365 services.

As Nadella describes Microsoft's ambition, it is that "Office and Microsoft Dynamics are changing the game with solutions that make business processes a catalyst to organizational productivity." He promises as well that reinventing productivity includes reinventing business processes, which in the past "were rigid, imposed and inflexible."

How flexible is Office 2016? Nadella describes it as changing the nature of work across three key dimensions:

  1. Mobility. "Work requires mobility of the human experience, not the device. Your work cannot be bound to any one device or location."
  2. Conversations, which Nadella describes as "the new platform for getting work done...the true driver of productivity." Thus, productivity solutions must enable collaboration toward shared outcomes with colleagues and partners, agnostic of device, geography or ...

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About Dann Anthony Maurno

Dann Anthony Maurno is a seasoned business journalist who began his career as International Marketing Manager with Lilly Software, then moved on as a freelancer to write for such prestigious clients as CFO Magazine; Compliance Week;Manufacturing Business Technology; Decision Resources, Inc.; The Economist Intelligence Unit; and corporate clients such as Iron Mountain, Microsoft and SAP. He is the co-author of Thin Air: How Wireless Technology Supports Lean Initiatives(CRC/Productivity Press, 2010).

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