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Nokia Deal Fuels Microsoft's Cloud, Collaboration, Management Strategies

By NetworkWorld Thu, Aug 13, 2009

Microsoft is using its newly formed alliance with Nokia, not to bolster its mobile efforts, but to help fuel expansion of its cloud, collaboration, real-time communications and management strategies.The alliance is a setup for tools Microsoft will be releasing next year and beyond in its Office family and System Center portfolio of products.

The company's ongoing strategy has been to create a single management platform for Windows, non-Windows platforms and devices on the back of its System Center tools. Microsoft has been working in the past few years to widen its management capabilities to include mobile devices, Linux and virtual machines. 

Microsoft is positioning Office 2010 as the version of its productivity tools and back-end servers best suited to work across PCs, devices and the browsers, according to Stephan Elop, President of Microsoft's Business Division.

Those Office back-end services will include both on-premises and hosted cloud offerings. The alliance with Nokia fosters those cloud, collaboration and management efforts.

"This is just a first step," Elop said during a joint press conference with Nokia. "This will also extend to interaction and collaboration around SharePoint."

Microsoft plans to support mobile access to intranet and extranet portals running on SharePoint, which is becoming a corporate hub for data integration and business intelligence tools integrated using Excel Services and other tools.

Microsoft also plans to extend its management platform to include cloud and service providers, so companies can centrally manage both internal systems and cloud-based services, such as those that could be offered to support the Office applications being added to the Nokia platform.

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