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Many organizations struggle with some of the most important aspects of project management.

The most widely used technology tools for managing projects continue to be email, Word, and Excel.

But collaboration and project management tools are being broadly implemented among many organizations.

What if a project manager could better use the tools already available in their organization, or if they don’t exist, easily and cost effectively “rent” external systems to create a first rate project collaboration system?

What would the value to the project team and key stakeholders be if this was simple and easy to setup and use with a noticeable increase in productivity?

Fortunately, powerful business collaboration platform services with structured execution capabilities are within the reach of project managers and their organizations.

We interview Arpan Shah to gain Microsoft's perspective on project collaboration.