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How can your organization’s Technical Decision Makers become organization heroes by reducing costs through Core Infrastructure Optimization?

1. Lower desktop deployment and management costs using the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack.
2. Ensure you and your customers are using Windows Vista to run your business in an operating environment that lowers deployment, energy, and maintenance costs. A tremendous side benefit is the increased productivity of your workforce.
3. Microsoft System Center delivers a significant cost reduction for server ownership by improving data-center operations management.
4. Infrastructure Optimization tools offer Technical Decision Makers models and scenarios to identify ways to drive down costs.
5. Reduce your IT complexity, lower total cost of ownership, and improve efficiency by using Microsoft virtualization solutions and the Integrated Virtualization ROI tool.
6. Use Deployment Solution Accelerators to deploy the solutions you already own to get the maximum value from your IT investments.

How can you achieve higher productivity and increased efficiency through Application Platform Infrastructure Optimization?

1. SQL Server 2008 is here, and together with the NEW Microsoft Application Platform Agreement, there is an opportunity to broadly standardize all of your database needs and drive transaction volume projects up with no additional license investment.
2. Windows Server 2008 operating system, with its built-in Web and virtualization technologies, enables you to consolidate more applications on fewer Servers, optimize your hardware spend and require less physical space. In-built middleware and interoperability allows more applications than ever before run on this platform, reducing support and maintenance of dual platforms.

Reduce costs and increase performance using Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization.

1. Microsoft Online Services relieves your Technical and Business Decision Makers from the burden of managing and maintaining business systems, freeing your IT departments to focus on initiatives that can deliver true competitive advantage.
2. Reduce travel, meeting, real estate and facilities, and communications costs, while leveraging a platform that fosters increased productivity through collaboration with Microsoft Unified Communications Solutions.

Drive competitive advantage and take out costs for your Business Decision Makers. Microsoft Dynamics helps you drive Sales, Marketing, Finance and other core business activities at lower costs and higher productivity.

1. From streamlining administrative procedures like invoicing to producing needed financial reporting, or freeing up capital through better inventory management, Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions automate and bring together business-critical operations to produce maximum efficiency and productivity and reduce costs.
2. Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step offers rapid implementation projects that can help streamline implementations and deliver a quick return on investment.
3. Tight integration between Microsoft Dynamics and other familiar Microsoft tools, such as Microsoft Office, drives seamless interactions with existing applications and helps you avoid significant ongoing costs.

Now, more than ever, you need to recruit new and retain existing customers with an incredible focus on satisfaction as well as real precision with marketing automation. Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides this along with better methods to precisely track revenue to deliver top line results.

Lastly, here are two offerings to directly contribute to the bottom line now and help drive your decisions.

• Qualified customers can use Microsoft Financing in 15 markets to finance 100 percent of their IT purchases, so they can refocus tight budgets to grow their businesses. With credit markets tight, this is an especially useful tool.
• Microsoft Software Assurance for Volume Licensing and the Forrester ROI tool enable you to leverage maintenance benefits to get the most from your software investments.

This list, while detailed, represents only a fraction of the ways that Microsoft can save your business money in a time when every dollar of the budget is critical and at the same time can help you drive profitability by maximizing every business opportunity.