What is your gamePLAN?

Businesses are feeling the bite of a tough economic climate. Let’s work together to develop a strategic approach that will help you get the most from your current IT investment.

Scenarios where Microsoft can help your business

• Take cost out of your IT budget by minimizing resources and infrastructure management
• Take cost out of your business by lowering energy consumption and reducing carbon dioxide output
• Spend less on travel by using conferencing and collaboration tools
• Be smart about growing your business and conserving capital
• Save on your software investment using Microsoft tools and promotions
• Save even more with licensing advantages

This website is designed to help you optimize your technology budget, lower IT spending, and better manage your business costs so you can do more with less.

Don’t wait, choose a topic and get started on your gamePLAN.

• Business and Marketing Insights

  For your businesses to grow, you need to effectively manage business performance, marketing costs and IP security. This means making sure your IT infrastructure provides a seamless flow of trusted information throughout your organization. This way everyone is working from the latest information, sharing the same resources and using business tools that are intuitive to learn and use.

  Microsoft Office 2007

  The 2007 Microsoft Office delivers powerful new capabilities that make it easier to more effectively manage, analyze, and share information. How can Office 2007 save you money?
  • Reduce Marketing cost – Create professional looking documents in-house, saving thousands of dollars
  • Reduce Security Costs – Ensure that confidential documents are kept confidential

• Energy Consumption

  Lower energy consumption and reduce carbon dioxide output There are some incredible power management tools available today that can help you reduce carbon dioxide output, which is better for the environment, and lowers the cost of energy consumption. Which in turn lowers the cost of doing business. This includes power management software solutions and the creation of a centralized IT administrator to control all your desktops.

  Windows Vista

  • Reduce carbon emissions and save money with Windows Vista®
  • With concerns about global warming, energy shortages, and potential oil crises, Windows Vista, Microsoft’s most energy-efficient operating system to date, is one way in which Microsoft can help you reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions—and save our customers money. By upgrading to Windows Vista you can give your employees a better user experience, while taking advantage of the built-in energy-saving features of Windows Vista, such as centralized manageability for IT, default settings optimized for best user experience and energy savings, and immediate responsiveness from Sleep or Resume.
  • Case Study: Continental Airlines Find out how Continental Airlines, the world's fifth largest airline, consolidated its operating system images, and reduced IT and energy costs by deploying the Windows Vista® operating system on 6,000 computers.

• Travel & Communications

  Minimize travel expenses and reduce communication costs using conferencing and collaboration tools One of the fastest ways to save money is by cutting back on business travel and using conferencing and collaboration tools. You can trim travel costs without losing that face-to-face experience. In many cases, sharing information and collaborating can be accomplished more efficiently when done virtually, helping to reduce the cost of running your business.

  Microsoft Unified Communications:

  Conduct meetings while on the go with Microsoft Unified Communications Microsoft's Unified Communications tools—including highly secure email, instant messaging, presence awareness, web conferencing, video conferencing, audio conferencing and Voice over IP— allow you to stay in contact every step of the way with geographically dispersed clients, team members, and mobile workers while on the go.