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Empower Teams Through Collaborative Workspaces
Microsoft delivers a
best-of-breed collaborative infrastructure that
gives end users the tools to easily create their own
workspaces and share assets across teams,
departments, and organizations while maintaining IT
control. |
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Connect Organizations Through Portals
Microsoft will help bring the
full insight and data of the organization to the
right people at the right time by making it easy to
connect people with line-of-business data, experts,
and business processes across the organization. |
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Enable Communities with Social Computing Tools
Microsoft gives organizations
the tools to deliver a broad set of
social computing capabilities within their
existing workspace and portal infrastructure, so end
users can more easily harness the collective
intelligence of the organization. |
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Reduce Cost and Complexity for IT by Using an
Integrated Infrastructure, Existing Investments,
and an Extensible Architectural Platform
The Microsoft collaboration
infrastructure leverages existing investments, is
extensible, and interoperates with other systems, so
organizations can maintain a lower cost of ownership
and more easily meet business demands by building a
single infrastructure. |
Office Groove 2007 is a collaboration software program that helps teams work together dynamically and effectively, even if team members work for different organizations, work remotely, or work offline. Working in Groove workspaces saves time, increases productivity, and strengthens the quality of team deliverables. Office Groove 2007 is just one example of how the 2007 Microsoft Office system helps teams and organizations collaborate more effectively.

Sarah Bray
joined Databranch in February of 2006 as a Sales Account Manager in
the Olean office. She graduated from Alfred University with a BS in
Business Administration and is currently studying for her MBA at St.
Bonaventure University. Sarah is a Microsoft Certified
Application Specialist for the Microsoft Office 2007 system,
including Excel, Outlook and Word. She also holds certifications
from Cisco, Symantec, Novel, Citrix and HP.
Sarah lives in Cuba with her husband, Scott, and daughter,
Samantha.
Jeff LaBenne
is entering his fifth year at Databranch and works as a Systems
Engineer in the Olean office.
Jeff has played many roles at Databranch.
He previously served as a Sales Account Manager in Olean and
a Branch Manager in the Elmira office. He is currently certified as
a SonicWALL Security Administrator, Cisco Sales Expert in Unified
Communications and Citrix Sales Professional. Jeff graduated from
Clarion (Pa.) University with a BS in Information Systems.
He and his wife Holly have two children, Ellie and Parker.