OBS moves head office to larger location - 27th September, 2004
It’s huge, it’s gigantic, it’s ours…
To cater for our continuing growth, OBS is moving its head office to a considerably larger and superior location in the heart of Melbourne.
As of the 27th of September, 2004, the OBS Melbourne office will be located at:
Level 8
451 Little Bourke Street
Melbourne Victoria 3000
Australia
OBS wins Microsoft Solution Builder Program – 23rd November 2003
Announced in October, OBS was confirmed as the winner of the Microsoft Office System Solution Builder Program for the Asia/Pacific (Australia) region with its "Knowledge Central" offering.
The program was set up to find and showcase "a revolutionary new way of using the Microsoft® Office System to achieve technical and business related criteria". The technical and business criteria were:
- It must address a genuine business need, either within the broad business community or a key vertical segment.
- It must use Microsoft® Office System products or services and display technical innovation in the use of new or existing technology.
- The solution must be running on Intel® Pentium® 4 processor with HT technology or Intel® Centrino™ Mobile Technology-based systems.
- It must appeal to either a broad customer or industry base or a more targeted but important group of users.
- The solution should ideally be applied to multiple lines of business, either across markets or within the same vertical.
- The solution should ideally apply to several Microsoft Office System products.
OBS's winning submission was Knowledge Central, an integrated portal solution that connects people with information across the enterprise, anywhere anytime.
Knowledge Central empowers people, teams, customers and partners to collaborate more efficiently through standard tools such as a web browser and the Microsoft® Office System.
Knowledge Central features include a web based portal, enterprise search, collaborative team sites, real time collaboration, web based email, project management, business web forms with approval workflow, advanced document management, all accessed securely anywhere anytime through a familiar browser environment.
OBS in Office 2003 Launch Keynote – 1st October 2003
Microsoft's ubiquitous desktop application suite, Office, has undergone a major upgrade and was relaunched worldwide on the 22nd of October, in corresponding events worldwide. As well as upgrading its core applications, Microsoft has also breathed more life into the brand name "Office" itself, to such an extent that it now includes most of its server applications under the moniker "Office Server System" as well. The idea behind the rebranding is that it reflects the greatly expanded interoperability features between the Office "desktop" applications and its latest server products.
Through appreciation of OBS's development of Knowledge Central, a total, integrated portal offering that makes full use of all the latest, upgraded Office applications and server products, Microsoft asked OBS to participate in the keynote speech of the Office 2003 launch. Brian Cook and Natalie Phillips ran a demonstration of Knowledge Central at the Sydney launch, and will shortly be participating in the Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide launches.
Entry is free for the Office launches but registration is essential and is done through the Microsoft Australia website (www.microsoft.com/australia/events/). Launch dates are:
Melbourne: Tuesday 28th October, Melbourne Convention Centre
Canberra: Monday 3rd November, Hyatt Hotel
Adelaide: Tuesday 11th November, Hilton Hotel
Perth: Friday 14th November, Sheraton Hotel
Brisbane: Thursday 20th November, Sheraton Hotel.