Microsoft Solutions Group

The Microsoft Solutions Group is a national team of consultants with Microsoft product experience. Our group is currently working with customers across the country to explain the benefits of Microsoft and Fujitsu products, identify opportunities for business improvement and apply strategies and technologies to deliver tangible benefits.

The group provides technical consultancy, system integration and infrastructure design skills and software development based around our service delivery methodology.

Customers

We know people want business solutions, not hardware and software. That is why we place understanding our customer's business at the heart of our business.

People

We have a dedicated team of consultants and technical experts who are passionate about the power of technology to solve business problems and enable business innovation. Our people are motivated individuals with the tools, training and teamwork to allow them to deliver service excellence.

Process

We operate a set of industry standard methodologies which ensure a consistent, low risk, cost effective approach to the delivery of our services. These focus in three areas: consultancy, solution design and implementation. Our methods are closely aligned to Microsoft's practices to allow us to work well together.

Technology

We have selected the Microsoft and Fujitsu technologies that we believe will bring most value to business. These underpin the Group's service portfolio, grouped into four technology streams. This allows us to be focused and effective. We are constantly monitoring the market and emerging IT to expand and update this portfolio.

We are focussing on four areas based on feedback from our customers and analysts on today's business issues and opportunities. We have invested in the specialist skills and technology to allow us to apply these solutions to our customer's business and achieve rapid results.

All our offerings are underpinned by the development capability necessary to enhance, integrate and tune the components to individual needs and to integrate into existing systems. This capability is focused on the key next generation disciplines of XML, SOAP, UDDI and the Microsoft .NET languages from C# and Visual Basic to Fujitsu COBOL. The streams focus on four product sets.

Enterprise platform

Underpinning the whole Microsoft strategy is a set of products that provides a scaleable, extendable and flexible infrastructure. The enterprise platform stream aligns the product sets with business value e.g. reduction of cost, improved efficiency, reduced down time.

Messaging and collaboration

Building on the enterprise platform is the messaging and collaboration technology stream. The stream is designed to deliver a number of services to implement and enhance Microsoft's messaging and collaboration products.

Knowledge management

With global spending of knowledge management predicted to exceed US$12billion by 2005, this stream focuses on the business practices and cultures needed to ensure that the investment in Microsoft's knowledge management products is successful.

Mobility

Microsoft's mobility products allow an organisation to leverage its investment in back end systems to deliver functionality to mobile devices. The mobility stream helps customers understand how and where this technology can be best used.

Key to all the streams is our underlying ability to integrate Microsoft technology with other systems. Our development capability enables us to bring this all together based on the following technology and products:

• Microsoft Biztalk Server
• Microsoft Appcentre Server
• Microsoft Visual Studio.NET
• Office XP Developer Edition
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Exchange 2000
• Internet Explorer
• XML, SOAP
• ADO, CDO