Master information management will be component of Workplace 14, a 1st Community Technology Preview (CTP) of that is due inside the first quarter of 2008.That;s based on a September 19 weblog post by Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist “PatricG.”Grasp information management is technologies that allows for the management of common reference data across disparate IT systems or groups. Microsoft stuck a toe inside the MDM space in June 2007 with its acquisition of privately held MDM specialist Stratature. Microsoft said at the time of the acquisition that it planned to withdraw existing Stratature products from the market and instead integrate the Stratature +EDM technologies into Workplace applications and servers.The first iteration of Stratature;s technologies that will likely be component of Workplace 14 — most most likely a part of the SharePoint Server product, it would seem– is codenamed “Bulldog,” based on PatricG;s post. Bulldog;s successor is codenamed “Greenwich,” he said,
Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Product Key, providing no delivery vehicle for that particular release of MDM. Greenwich will add new integration,
Office Standard 2007, analytical and transactional capabilities on top of what;s shipped with Bulldog, PatrickG said.From PatrickG;s weblog post:“Bulldog includes Microsoft process and standards applied to the Stratature code base as well as several important new capabilities. Bulldog will meet these requirements while laying the foundation for the long-term master data management vision at Microsoft. In concert with the product enhancements,
Office Enterprise 2007 Serial, we might be building the product ecosystem including sales channels,
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Serial, customer support, partner readiness,
Office 2007 Standard Activation, demos and training materials.”PatrickG said Bulldog will be aligned with the Workplace 14 wave for the CTP, Technology Adoption Program (TAP) and release-to-manufacturing deliverables. He said the CTP is because of to go to select customers by Q1 2008.Microsoft has said next-to-nothing about its plans for Workplace 14. Back in February 2007, a Microsoft presentation leaked that pegged Office 14 as on target to become shipped inside the first half of 2009. When Microsoft told its sales force this summer that Windows 7, the next version of Windows, was unlikely to ship before 2010, I was betting that Office 14 also had been pushed back a year. Given this latest weblog publish, I;m now wondering Workplace 14 will ship ahead of Windows 7.Any other new Workplace 14 scuttlebutt out there?