What CIOs Love At The Midsize Enterprise Summit

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The products: Office, Exchange, etc.

Pictured: Attendees asked a lot of questions about Microsoft licensing.

Quotable: "Until their board room, I wouldn't have picked them [as an exciting product], but the direction they're headed with SaaS sounds ideal. Everyone uses it, everyone is familiar with it. To go through upgrade [implementation] is painful. To outsource their Exchange and SharePoint solutions has to got be a big plus for small and midsize businesses. These are things that take up lots of time. It's one of the things where you have to have the lights on, it's a given. But we don't want to spend any more time than necessary," said said Jim Williams, manager of information services at A&W Food Services of Canada, North Vancouver, B.C.

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