Marines flex their muscle with SharePoint

While the Marines have been serving in every conflict since the Revolutionary War, there is one thing they have never had at their disposal – a virtual work environment to keep them connected. That has changed with the Iraq conflict as the Marines are piloting a virtual office collaboration system built on the back of Microsoft's SharePoint Server and the CorasWorks Workplace Suite, a set of business intelligence tools for building collaborative and workflow-based applications.

"It tells you that when you build this kind of capability that suddenly people who you had difficulty collaborating with, who you traded e-mail and played phone tag, are now easier to communicate with because they are part of the same virtual office," says Simmons. Read the entire story.