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Office Business Applications (OBA)

Most IT departments that have traditionally relied on huge investments in large Line-of-Business (LOB) systems, such as financial management systems, ERP, CRM and SCM solutions, are yet to realize the optimum RoI from these systems. This is because of a fundamental inconsistency between transactional business systems that run in silos and people-driven processes.

Today, Microsoft Office products like Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint, which are the baseline work environment for most workers, have had a tremendous impact on personal productivity. These are powerful tools, which help workers gain insights, make decisions, take action and collaborate, but are largely limited to local or personal information. In comparison, transactional LOB systems are rarely designed considering the needs of the people who use them.

Office Business Applications (OBAs) are an emerging breed of applications that leverage platform capabilities of the Office system to bridge results gap between LOB systems and end-user productivity tools. OBAs seamlessly integrate the data in user’s desktop with the data in ERP, CRM, SCM and other LOB systems, increasing the user’s productivity.

 

Sonata and OBA

Sonata has extensive experience in working on Microsoft Office technologies and developing several customer impacting solutions. Over the years, Sonata has collaborated with several software product companies and enterprises to create innovative solutions around the Microsoft Office platform.