"Office 2010 is faster, and more intuitive and reliable than any software we’ve used. It’s giving us more time to improve operations and develop the innovative technologies our clients rely on."

Samir Greiss, general manager, Ondes et Rayons

Driven by a spirit of innovation, Ondes et Rayons focuses on providing the highest-quality and most technologically advanced radiology equipment to healthcare providers across France.

With more than 3,000 clients and a relatively small staff of 40, the company is always seeking ways to enhance collaboration and boost productivity to accelerate solutions deployment.

When company leaders turned to Microsoft® Office 2010, they found a solution that provided intuitive ways to work together, and improved data analysis tools that provide better clarity in performance charts, allowing Ondes et Rayons’ employees to deliver client solutions faster than ever.

SituationOndes et Rayons’ managers found that extracting data across multiple spreadsheets monopolized their time. As a result, they could not produce client-facing status reports with trend analyses as quickly as they would have liked. Users also had to work sequentially on documents, resulting in the inefficient process of sending revisions back and forth—ultimately delaying project completion.Also, creating professional-looking client-facing documents was tedious, requiring multiple formatting and editing steps which caused frustration for employees.

Accelerating document completion and improving performance analyses hinged on finding more efficient, intuitive ways of working together, and Ondes et Rayons’ managers knew they needed to find a solution that would help them accomplish just that.

SolutionTo reach this goal, Ondes et Rayons deployed Microsoft Office 2010. This powerful productivity suite provides new ways to work together, with co-authoring tools that allow users to collaborate on projects and complete everyday tasks in less time. And with advanced data visualization tools in Microsoft Excel® 2010, Ondes et Rayons management can create client-facing performance charts that display data in an easily digestible format—helping Ondes et Rayons transform complex raw data into clear, actionable information that helps their clients improve their businesses.

According to Samir Greiss, Ondes et Rayons general manager, “Office 2010 is faster, and more intuitive and reliable than any software we’ve used. It’s giving us more time to improve operations and develop the innovative technologies our clients rely on.”

Improving Performance AnalysisSparklines, a new feature of Excel 2010, allows users to easily integrate visual charts and graphs within a single cell—allowing Ondes et Rayons managers to instantly spot data trends and deliver performance charts to clients in less time. And Slicers enables users to dynamically filter data and visually display precisely what’s needed in an Excel PivotTable®, eliminating the process of manually sorting and filtering complex sets of data.

Customer: Ondes et Rayons

Web Site: www.ondes-et-rayons.com

Size: 40 employees

Country or Region: Bois D’Arcy, France

Industry: Healthcare Technologies

Customer ProfileOndes et Rayons provides medical supplies to healthcare providers across France, focusing on delivering premium radiology equipment so its clients can offer the best healthcare solutions possible.

Software and Services Microsoft Excel®2010 Sparklines Slicers PivotTable Co-authoring Microsoft Word®2010 Microsoft PowerPoint® 2010 Picture editing tools

For more information about Microsoft Office, go to:www.office.com

Microsoft® Office 2010Customer Solution Case Study

Healthcare Provider Produces Projects 50% Faster with Microsoft® Office 2010

“Slicers and Sparklines are incredibly easy to use, and so efficient in terms of extracting data and highlighting trends. We’re saving time and delivering better quality reports to our clients―faster,” says Greiss.

Working Better TogetherCo-authoring tools available in Microsoft Word® 2010 and PowerPoint® 2010* enable multiple users to work on a project at the same time, eliminating the inefficient and time-consuming process of sending revisions back and forth.

“Co-authoring allows our employees to work together and complete a document 50 percent faster than before,” Greiss points out. “Being a small company, any time we save is huge—and helps us grow in unanticipated ways.”

Generating Impressive ResultsCreating visually-rich presentations is easier, thanks to the intuitive new photo and graphic editing tools available in Word and PowerPoint. Users can work with these tools and produce professional-looking documents without resorting to additional—and expensive—third-party software programs by manipulating images through adjusting color tones, saturation, and brightness, or applying effects such as glass, pastels, and more.

For Ondes et Rayons, this feature has empowered employees to create eye-catching documents that increase the impact of client-facing presentations in less time. “One-third of the time we spent creating presentations was devoted to creating images,” Greiss says. “Now, with photo-editing tools, that time is cut in

half. Anyone can use them—and the results are stunning.”

Another time-savings feature of Office 2010 is Backstage®, which replaces the traditional File menu to give users a single location where they can quickly and easily manage document properties. And the improved Ribbon allows users to customize file and menu tabs to suit their unique working style so they can find the right commands to execute everyday tasks.

“The Backstage view and Ribbon combine to create a visually impressive system that’s saving clicks—and bringing office work to a whole new level,” Greiss points out. “Once you try it, you will never look back.”

* Co-authoring capabilities require either Microsoft® SharePoint® Foundation Services or a free Windows Live account.

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Document published 11/2009