Product Information for
Microsoft Office 2003 Professional OEM (3
Pack)
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Microsoft Office 2003
Professional OEM has evolved from a suite of personal productivity products to a
more comprehensive and integrated system. Building on the familiar tools that
many people already know, the Microsoft Office System includes programs,
servers, services, and solutions designed to work together to help address a
broad array of business problems.
Office 2003 Professional includes
the following components
- Word 2003
- Excel 2003
- Outlook 2003
- PowerPoint 2003
- Access 2003
- Publisher 2003
- Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager
Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to Office 2003 Professional
OEM
Microsoft Office 2003 Professional OEM provides tools and
technologies to help IT managers more easily deploy, administer, and maintain
Microsoft Office technologies, while empowering employees do their jobs more
effectively. Here are the top 10 reasons to use Office 2003 Professional OEM in
your organisation.
Empower employees to make smart and timely
decisions.
Enable employees to exchange and use data from a variety of
different sources-such as line-of-business applications, corporate portals, or
partner systems-with the support for industry-standard Extensible Markup
Language (XML) in Office 2003 Professional OEM programs. Better information
access and the ability for employees to incorporate that information into their
workflow empowers employees and can help them make more accurate and timely
decisions.
Help protect company information.
Information rights
management (IRM) functionality is a new policy enforcement technology in Office
2003 Professional OEM that can help protect sensitive files and e-mail messages
from unauthorized access and use. With IRM, employees can even set expiration
dates on files.
Enable employees to manage and act on the increasing
volume of business information.
Improvements in the design, layout, and
features of Microsoft Outlook 2003 can help employees better organize, find, and
prioritize their business communications. In addition, the new Research Library
available in some Office 2003 Professional OEM programs enables employees to
research, find, and incorporate information from reference materials into their
files. Employees can access reference materials ranging from corporate
information sources to online research sites to dictionaries and
thesauri.
Increase the capture and use of corporate
information.
XML support in Office 2003 Professional OEM enables
companies to develop solutions that standardize the creation and collection of
information that would otherwise reside in binary files on computers and file
shares. Businesses can help reduce the duplication of data and work that exists
in many organizations today while improving the value of corporate
information.
Help company groups take full advantage of
line-of-business applications.
With support for XML, Office 2003
Professional OEM enables employees to access and analyze information from a
variety of business systems-such as customer relationship management (CRM)
applications, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, or other
line-of-business applications-all from within the familiar tools they use today.
Employees can increase efficiency and productivity while taking advantage of
existing investments.
Improve performance and user connectivity to
e-mail.
Office 2003 Professional OEM includes a new cached mode to
increase reliability of connections, and improve performance and user
productivity. The new Outlook 2003 cached mode can help increase the reliability
and performance of connections, as well as employee productivity. The cached
mode in Outlook 2003 downloads all necessary information to an employee s
computer as it comes in-so that network performance issues do not affect the
employee.
Support effective teaming-internally and with
partners.
Shared Workspaces-created from within programs in Office 2003
Professional OEM and based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services-can help
improve teaming, partnering, and project visibility, and enable virtual teams to
work together in real time. Employees can complete projects faster and reduce
the confusion inherent in multi-participant projects and processes. Employees
can see when team members are online, communicate with them in real time, and
publish important task lists and files to a team Web site.
Create
customized solutions.
Support for XML in Office 2003 Professional OEM
enables developers to build customized and industry-specific document solutions
(or smart documents) that can help streamline processes and improve productivity
without significant employee training or downtime. With smart document solutions
for generating proposals, for example, sales teams can streamline processes and
improve efficiency and capture of data.
Help increase security and
privacy.
Office 2003 Professional OEM provides several methods-including
digital certificates and signatures, data protection and recovery, and other
program-specific features-to help manage program and document security.
Increased security measures in Outlook 2003-such as the blocking of incoming
messages that may contain viruses, HTML image blocking to prevent address
validation, and improved rules to manage junk e-mail messages-can reduce the
time employees spend managing e-mail messages.
Simplify upgrades,
administration, and support.
Deploy Office 2003 Professional OEM across
your organization with minimum disruption of work to employees. Improve the
distribution of Office Professional Edition 2003 to employees with low bandwidth
connections by allowing them to copy a compressed installation source locally
and then install it from there, rather than installing from a CD or network
share. Employees also don t need to reboot after installation. Consistent file
formats in Office 2003 Professional OEM can help employees share documents with
users who have not upgraded yet.
System
Requirements for Microsoft Office 2003 Professional OEM (3
Pack)
- Computer and processor Personal computer with an Intel
Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) or higher processor, Pentium III recommended
- Memory 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or above recommended
- Hard disk Hard disk usage will vary depending on
configuration; custom installation choices may require more or less hard disk
space. Listed below are the hard disk requirements for individual Office 2003
Editions.
- Operating system Microsoft Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 3
(SP3) or later; or Windows XP or later
- Display Super VGA (800 × 600) or a higher-resolution monitor
- 400 MB of available hard disk space; 190 MB of hard disk
space for Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 with Business Contact Manager
- Optional installation files cache (recommended) requires an
additional 290 MB of available hard disk space
