What is MEC ?
The Microsoft Experience Center (MEC) provides a facilitated hands-on environment where business and IT decision makers test drive Microsoft technologies including Office 365, Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, Visio, Windows, Windows Phone, Dynamics CRM and System Center.

Why you should come to MEC?
Unlike traditional product presentations and demos, the MEC puts you in the driver's seat for a rich, interactive experience. It is a unique opportunity to explore Microsoft's Office applications by role playing in a "true-to-life" environment. Discover the right solutions for your business and experience the "future of productivity".

Target Audience:
Business decision makers in a corporate setting Operations Managers, VP of Sales, CEO, COO, Chief Administrative Officer, VP Marketing, Project Managers or Directors - PMO. Value Added Resellers + System Integrators and their customers.

Workshop Agenda:
Microsoft Experience Center (MEC) 3.5 is structured as a story with 6 chapters which is the recommended approach to how the MEC should be delivered.

1. Mobile productivity: Participants will manage email, personal and work appointments, and review documents stored in their SharePoint mobile workspace.


2. Communicate effectively: Participants will use advanced inbox management functionalities of Outlook, will view data from Dynamics CRM and request software from System Center - all from inside their inbox.


3. Communicate in real time: Participants will learn how to find an expert in the organization by using enterprise people and skill search capabilities in Lync and SharePoint. They will experience unified communications, escalating peer to peer instant messaging chats to voice, to video, expanding to multiple parties and real time content and applications sharing.


4. Gain business insights: Participants will use self-service interactive BI tools including dashboards, decomposition trees, Excel slicers and Sparklines to analyze business data.


5. Collaborate anywhere: Participants learn how to edit and integrate Visio diagrams in word a document. Participants experience how to co-author in real time sales proposals and other important documents. Participants partake in an approval workflow and participants are introduced to the slide libraries.


6. Connect with customers: Participants will utilize a structured Lync meeting to communicate and share content with people outside the organization.