Defence Company Looks to Open Standards to Secure Future Information

Scientists and engineers at defence research company QinetiQ support their innovative scientific developments with intellectual capital captured from internal and external sources. The organisation is no stranger to the use of technology to support these vast information resources. It has recently implemented a central repository for search and collaboration in the form of its Enterprise Portal based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and QinetiQ continues to seek new ways to help scientists and engineers to share knowledge more efficiently. The 2007 Microsoft Office release now supports Ecma Office Open XML, an open standard specification for electronic documents, which offers easy integration with the systems of any technology provider.