Looking to establish more pipelines between its Office 2007 suite of desktop applications and several of its server-based applications, Microsoft on Monday at its Tech Ed 2006 showed off an early version of a technology that would deeply embed processes and data into Office clients.
Called Line Of Business interoperability (LOBi) for SharePoint Server, the technology permits structured process integration with Office client applications, enables people to update transactional applications from within Office, and to more securely take structured business processes and data offline.
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