Scenarios for Developing Solutions for Office Live Small Business
Microsoft Office Live Small Business contains powerful tools and building blocks to assist you in developing and packaging solutions that help your customers streamline the operations of their small business. The wide range of business applications and customizable features that are available with Office Live Small Business make it useful in a variety of customer scenarios, including selling goods and services, and assisting with sharing information across multiple locations.
Selling Goods
Selling over the Internet is more efficient with Office Live Small Business, which includes a prebuilt Store Manager component and sophisticated tools such as Page Editor and Site Designer that make it easier for you to create and include a professional public Web site in your solution.
In addition, Office Live Small Business provides components to help your customers manage their business from anywhere using the Internet. For example, you can use the data sharing features to enable your customers to provide catalogs on a public Web site or to receive feedback from their customers. Contact Manager facilitates managing customer relationships, and workspaces can be added to your solution to help your customer work with partners on special projects.
By using your solution through their Office Live Small Business account, your customer can integrate spreadsheets, documents, and other kinds of information with desktop software, including Microsoft Office Access 2007, Office Excel 2007, and other Microsoft Office components.
Providing Services
You can easily create a solution that helps your customer to track schedules and other business tasks, including managing reservations and appointments, by customizing their Office Live Small Business Web site.
If a customer has employees with appointments outside the office, you can make their e-mail, company calendar, and spreadsheets available to them wherever there is Internet connectivity. By building a solution using workspaces and business applications, your customer's employees can interact with their customers from wherever they are, and the main office can receive immediate notification of any business activity.
Sharing Information
The business applications in Office Live Small Business are a great starting point to help small businesses with multiple geographic locations or employees who travel or work from home have immediate access to information. With Office Live Small Business, no phone numbers or access codes are required. You can make all of the business data your customers use in their office equally accessible from across town or across the world.