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December 05, 2003

Office 2003 Research Service

Integration with Microsoft Office and MySmartChannels deepens with the addition of new Office Research Services.

Today we started testing the new MySmartChannels Office 2003 Research Service (ORS), a web service integration with Microsoft Office 2003.

MySmartChannels Office Research Services (ORS) lets Microsoft Office 2003 users securely search across any number of MySmartChannels servers from any Office 2003 application, including Outlook, OneNote and Visio. Search capabilities leverage the full capabilities of the MySmartChannels platform.

Feature Highlights

  • Find channels, channel items, spaces, and users
  • Find semantically related items using SmartPoints(tm)
  • Login for secure access based on your credentials
  • Single sign-on from any Office application
  • Search public content without logging in
  • Monitor any search result using your RSS news reader

The Office Research task pane (new in Office 2003) makes it delightfully simple to search both public and secure content sources.  Additionally, users can subscribe to any search result as an RSS feed.  By subscribing to a research RSS feed in a news reader such as NewsGator, users are automatically notified as new search results become available.

If you have Office 2003 installed and would like to be an early beta users, drop us a note. We also provide MyST as an Office Research Service development system.

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