Microsoft Office 2000

Office 2000 addresses many small business needs ranging from managing customer relationships and streamlining day-to-day tasks to accessing and analyzing information for better decision-making. The package allows users to produce work more easily due to the key design factors that Microsoft incorporated:

Consistency: The applications in Office 2000 all look and act the same, so that once users have learned one of the applications, they can apply that learning to any of the others.

Integration: The products in Office Small Business Edition work together to prevent retyping and save time allowing you to reuse information.

Turnkey Solution: Because time is a premium for any small business, a suite is convenient — a one-time purchase of the tools small businesses need, all in one box.

Important Tools: Office suites provide an opportunity for exposure to important and useful small-business tools — like spreadsheets or a desktop publishing program.

Value: Buying the Office suite is more cost-effective than acquiring the applications separately.

With the Exchange Server in the Back Office suites and Outlook from Microsoft Office 2000 you have everything you need to share graphically rich e-mail, memos, and ideas with anyone - easily, reliably, and with lightning speed. Now a small business can have the communications savvy of a corporate giant:

Instant communication. Send important communications reliably to everyone who needs to know, whether they're down the hall or around the world.

Group scheduling and collaboration. Schedule meetings, collaborate on shared documents, and get important business done. BackOffice Servers enable group scheduling and collaboration, allowing you to spend less time coordinating and more time focusing on the things that matter.

Manage customer contacts. Manage and share customer and partner contacts in a central location with Outlook and Exchange Server. Everyone in your company will know the latest information on key customer and partner accounts.

Make it easier for customers to do business with you. Provide customers with round-the-clock information on your company via an Internet Web site. Stay in touch with clients directly via Internet e-mail.

Reach new customers. Introduce prospective customers to your offerings with automated mass mailings produced in Microsoft Word or Publisher and delivered via Exchange Server and Microsoft Fax Service.

Choosing the correct version of Office 2000 for your needs can seem complicated; the range spreads from Standard Edition through to Premium Edition. To help you decide we have provided a simple task related chart which matches common business document requirements to Office 2000 Editions.