Microsoft Infrastructures

Windows 7 is the most accomplished operating system for workstations yet. Its development results from 3 fundamental axioms:

1- Guarantee the availability of an efficient system under all conditions

Staff can concentrate on business as Windows 7 provides a good reliability and high performances. With DirectAccess, remote users can access the company’s resources, in a transparent and highly secured way, even when they are travelling. BranchCache improves access to the company’s resources for staff located in subsidiaries and branches.

2- Strengthen security and control

Windows 7 increases flexibility and secures computers and data. Companies need not fear loss or theft of a laptop or a removable storage device. WindowsBitLocker can from now on encrypt external disks as well as internal disks.

For companies that impose very strict conformity rules, administrators have access to an applications blocking mechanism: it is possible to define which software can run on which computer, for which user. This also greatly limits the risk for malwares.

3- Rationalise workstations management

Windows 7 simplifies management and deployment of workstations, laptops and virtual environments. Administrators can change the OS image, add or remove pilots, multilingual packs, and upgrades, then transfer the new image on PC using a reduced bandwidth.

New features for scripting and automation based on Windows PowerShell reduce management and troubleshooting costs. For companies adopting desktop virtualisation, Windows 7 facilitates the management of virtual systems images, by operating the same tools as that used by physical systems. It is easier to use and more practical for long distance links.

For companies, Windows 7 is available in 2 editions:

Windows 7 Professionnal : for users who have a professional use of their desktop. This version includes all the features of Windows 7 Family Premium Edition, as well as key business features, such as domain linking, Windows XP mode, advanced backup or documents and files encryption. This edition is available in 3 different modes: pre-installed on the computer, out-of-the-box, or upgrade via volume purchase agreement.

Windows 7 Entreprise : includes all the features of the OS. Targeting middle and big companies, this version is solely available through Software Insurance or Windows Intune subscription. Apart from Windows 7 Professional features, Windows 7 Enterprise provides important features for companies, such as language packs, Bitlocker or DirectAccess.

Microsoft Office 2010 offers new flexible and powerful tools to help you optimise your work. You can create reports and outstanding presentations with tools allowing you to illustrate your ideas in the most creative way. You can stay focused on your projects, even when away from your computer, through an access to Office files via a Web navigator or a smartphone. You can work efficiently with others, by sharing, modifying or checking files at the same time, whether you are in the same or different geographical or time zones.

With Office 2010, you are the one in charge: you carry out tasks and gain impressive results when et how you want it.

Derived from Windows Server 2008 platform, Windows Server 2008 R2 improves existing technologies while offering new features to help IT staff increase the reliability and flexibility of server infrastructure.

New virtualisation tools, Web resources, upgraded management features and the perfect integration with Windows 7 help save time and reduce costs. They also provide a platform for a dynamic and optimised datacentre.

Built around Active Directory, Windows 2008 R2 provides new administration tools, which facilitate day-to-day management of the infrastructure.

Powerful tools, like Internet Information Services (IIS 7.5), the latest version of Server Manager and Hyper-V or Windows PowerShell 2.0 platforms, reinforce the control given to the clients, their efficiency and capacity to react more quickly to business changes.

Windows Server 2008 R2 includes several features, especially designed to interact with client computers equipped with Windows 7, the client version of Microsoft Windows operating system.

A keystone in Microsoft solutions for unified communications, Microsoft Exchange mail solution is the best solution for companies who want to promote collaborative work and increase productivity.

With Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, you can reach your objectives while controlling your costs for deployment, administration and compliance.

Relying on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 investments, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps your IT department reach now levels of performance and reliability, by providing them with features that simplify administration, improve security and answer your users need for mobility.

Exchange provides you with a large range of deployment options, protects you against information loss and helps you respect regulatory requirements. Exchange is without any doubt the most efficient mail and collaborative solution currently on the market.

Exchange Server 2010 Datasheet

SharePoint 2010 is the information management and business collaboration platform that helps you improve your productivity and manage contents, by using all the experience gained on Office via a Web navigator.

Whether your choose an on-site deployment or an hosted service, SharePoint 2010 integrated features, optimised by index and search technologies, enable you to rapidly adapt to the evolution of your business needs, and reinforce collaboration in and out the office.

Consolidation of collaborative solutions on SharePoint 2010 helps you reduce costs, by cutting your training and maintenance expenses, while improving the efficiency of your IT department, on a single platform fitting into your own compliance and governance rules.

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 helps your people be more productive, through an integrated set of innovative features. Information management and business collaboration become easier. Your colleagues, partners and clients can collaborate more efficiently.

SharePoint 2010 Datasheet

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 provides numerous advanced features to help your organisation tackle the built-up of data bases and improve IT efficiency.

SQL Server 2008 R2 is a complete, secure, reliable and scalable data platform for all your strategic applications, and offers many services for all types of data.

SQL Server 2008 R2 also introduces the notion of self service Business Intelligence, mixing business and IT needs around the same vision.

SQL Server helps you take well-informed decisions thanks to relevant information provided by Microsoft Office. Business users become self-sufficient in the conception of their reports.

The IT department can count on a durable solution, reconciling built-up, monitoring and maintenance.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Datasheet