As expected, Microsoft Corp. is pushing out a series of enhancements to its business applications that will boost collaboration and integration capabilities among employees, customers and partners.
This week at the Convergence 2003 customer conference here, the company's business solutions unit announced a new portal interface for its products and showcased upcoming technologies that will be part of its Microsoft Business Network Web-services-based collaboration framework. Other executives detailed improvements coming to the company's customer relationship management applications and FRx financial software.
Perhaps the biggest announcement was about the portal, which Microsoft said will be able to collapse multiple screens into one browser-based interface and will be able to be configured for specific roles. End users will have direct access to applications, data and business processes through secure central log-on, said Mark Jensen, group product manager of new solutions.
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