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Can Microsoft Handle all of Your Needs?

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Can moving to an all-Microsoft environment save your business time, money and aggravation? More and more IT departments are saying yes.

Officials at the nation's largest organ donation agency LifeNet encounter true life-or-death decisions every day, and so view technology as simply a way to speed connections between organ recipients and donor families. This is why IT executives there have adopted an "all-Microsoft" approach, deciding to skip the laborious task of concocting a heterogeneous environment to accommodate desktop, server and mobile computing applications.

LifeNet is not alone. A growing number of organizations seem willing to run a pure Microsoft IT shop stacked with SQL and SharePoint servers, Exchange mail solutions, Office System packages for desktop applications and other Microsoft products, according to some industry analysts and integrators.

It's a strategy that obviously won't work for all enterprises, especially larger corporations bulked up through mergers and acquisitions and hence saddled with a variety of IT assets. However, for small to midsized organizations interested in simplicity, quick integration and reduced staff training time, an all-Microsoft approach may be best, says Mike Gilpin, vice president and research director at Forrester Research Inc.

Read the entire story online (Redmond Magazine).

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