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Microsoft Solutions
for Research research.
Microsoft Corporation
simplified.

2.
Research teams today face significant challenges that are unique,
considerable, time-consuming and costly:
Formidable data management challenges
Publishing and disseminating information
challenges Sharing and collaborating with multiple teams worldwide
Tracking and accounting for grants

3.
Microsoft Solutions for Research Management help you create
a proven, attractive and affordable research environment for:
Better collaboration
Greater analysis and development
challenges Professional authoring capabilities
solved
More on-demand computing power and scalability
A lower cost of ownership

4.
With Microsoft Solutions for Research Management, you’ll:
Reduce costs
Make research tasks easier
the Publish findings faster to your community or the world
bottom line Improve your bottom line

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our vision
To provide highly scalable tools and services that can transform how research is
conducted, accelerating scientific exploration, discovery and results.

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key customer scenarios
experiments collaboration archive content dissemination administration analytics
& simulations & storage & publication
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Researchers need: Microsoft Research
• Access to scientific applications Solutions provide:
• Computer power on demand • Technology optimized for scale
• Massive data parsing • Ultimate computing and
experiments capabilities analytical power
& simulations • Enormous analytical
computations

8.
CASE STUDY EVIDENCE
MIT and the Ragon Institute leverage Microsoft HPC to shorten
HIV data analysis from years to just days, generating twenty key
findings to help scientists move toward a cure.
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9.
Researchers need: Microsoft Research
• Global access to Solutions provide:
multidisciplinary scientists • Maximized global
• A secure working environment communication capabilities
• Secure file sharing and
collaboration collaboration environment

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RESOURCE SUPPLEMENT
Microsoft worked with several partners to create Virtual Research
Environment Toolkits for SharePoint that provide complimentary
research project collaboration and research data management
capabilities. READ MORE

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Researchers need: Microsoft Research
• Simplified compliance Solutions provide:
• Controlled user access • Centralized research data
• Secure research data
archiving &
storage

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CASE STUDY EVIDENCE
British Library project managers and collaborators built a platform
to store and archive project-site data, such as specific content,
templates, workflows, and other rich building block tools.
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Researchers need: Microsoft Research
• Uninterrupted access to scientific Solutions provide:
applications and data • Professional publication tools
• Tools to publish articles (Word add-ins)
and findings • Function and construct graphs
dissemination document computation
& publication • A citation management
toolbar

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CASE STUDY EVIDENCE
Italian Institute uses Microsoft parallel development tools to
process more genetic data at greater speeds, helping to make
significant strides toward solving genetic mysteries.
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CASE STUDY EVIDENCE
Research4Life leverages Microsoft Research Solutions to help
provide developing countries with free or low-cost access to
academic and professional peer-reviewed content online.
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Researchers need: Microsoft Research
• To prepare, submit and manage Solutions provide:
grants • Research accelerators
• To manage post-publication data • Grant tracking and
post-publication tools
administration

17.
CASE STUDY EVIDENCE
Nationwide Children’s Hospital uses Microsoft tools to create a
new application so cancer pathologists can conduct translational
research and quickly identify participants for clinical trials.
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Researchers need: Microsoft Research
• Data mining tools Solutions provide:
• Machine learning for pattern • Knowledge extraction tools
recognition capabilities • Varied input and data set
• Complex data reduction extraction capabilities
analytics and visualization tools

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scenarios &
solutions
Microsoft Research
Solutions offers a
product for almost any
research scenario

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Applications developed
for researchers to run on Azure
SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS HPC APPLICATIONS BIG DATA ANALYTICS AZURE VM TOOLS
BLAST HPC SCHEDULER DAYTONA LINUX ON AZURE
applications
Perform analysis of vast Leverage HPC in the cloud from Map Reduce Frameworks Benefit from Linux VM on Azure
proteomics and genomic data in on premise cluster
the cloud with Basic Local HADOOP
TOOLS Perform distributed processing of
Alignment Search Tool (BLAST)
Leverage productivity-boosting large data sets across clusters of
tools such as: computers
Academic Search
Machine Translation EXCEL DATASCOPE
Generic Worker Drive data analytics with Excel
plug-in for researchers
CLOUD NUMERICS
Gain access to a comprehensive
.NET library of numerical
algorithms ranging from basic
mathematics to advanced
statistics to linear algebra

21.
Try Windows Azure.
No Obligation.
Your complimentary 90-day trial includes:
• Compute VM: 750 small compute • Storage: 20GB with 50,000 storage
hours per month transactions
complimentary • Relational database: 1GB web edition • Bandwidth: Unlimited inbound /
trial SQL Azure database 20GB Outbound
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Create your own secure research
environment with FREE virtual tools
Access over 13 SharePoint 2010 modules and extensions for project
management, collaboration and data management scenarios, including:
extensions • Cancer Imaging for SharePoint
• Collaborator Search Kit
• Document Review Workflow Kit
• User Administration (FBA) Kit
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What are Research Management Solutions
from Microsoft ? How do these Microsoft solutions help my team
Research Management Solutions from Microsoft are smart and publish and benefit from their research?
affordable platforms as well as tools that can help you create the Professional authoring tools and administration tools help
ultimate community-based research platform. These solutions researchers publish and disseminate their research faster, more
are very cost-effective and are powered by cutting-edge efficiently and at less cost.
technology.
With Research Management Solutions, from Microsoft your
team can:
• Create documents with specialized Word add-ins to publish
What do the Research Management Solutions
to professional research standards
from Microsoft help researchers do better? • Share articles, proposals and reports with colleagues around
These tools allow research units to: the world
• Parse large amounts of data quickly • Allow users to amend and comment on documents in a
• Perform data analysis and development structured way before submission
• Share and collaborate with research teams worldwide • Manage post-publication data and findings
• Professionally author and publish
faq
• Manage and administer papers and grant submissions
• Much, much more
How do these Microsoft tools reduce costs?
With Microsoft, you can create a very cost-effective and more
affordable research platform. Improve the bottom line with tools
that help your research units:
• Lessen experimentation time
• Automate workflows
• Shrink computational analysis from years to weeks
• Use extra capacity only when you need it for more affordable
data analysis