HIVE Minds Consulting strongly believes that the creation of Office
Business Applications (OBA's), built using the Office 2010® platform is the mechanism
by which organizations, small or large, can collaborate more efficiently. Their information
workers can work together in a connected and collective manner. This is the way
of work in the 21st century.
Office Business Applications are simply the use of the Office Platform to connect,
collaborate business processes and Line of Business (LOB) systems. The Microsoft®
image shown below illustrated this fact.
Figure 1: Typical components of an Office Business Application
Office Business Applications (OBA) are an emerging breed of application that leverages
the power of the Office Business Platform, that is, the clients, servers, services,
and tools that comprise the 2007 Microsoft Office system. People typically perform
significant additional work outside of the formal processes of a line-of-business
(LOB) system as they collaborate with other people via phone and email, obtain information
from multiple sources in the form of documents and spreadsheets, and switch between
online and offline modes for meetings and business trips. OBAs help simplify this
interaction by fitting within the informal processes that information workers actually
follow.
Please download the following
OBA Overview(doc) paper written by Microsoft®
