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Judging

Meet the judges
Our Community Judging Board consists of 2007 Microsoft Office system experts, HP hardware pros and Non-Governmental Organization representatives.

How solutions are evaluated
The Judging Board will score your work based on:

Its potential to solve a charity's business challenge(s). This counts for 70% of your total score.
How broadly you use the 2007 Microsoft Office system as a development platform. Harness the updated programs to design the most powerful, helpful solution. Worth 30% of your score.


Your solution must include two of the following products or technologies from the 2007 Microsoft Office system:

 

Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007
Microsoft® Office Word 2007
Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007
Microsoft® Office InfoPath® 2007
Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007
Microsoft® Office Access 2007
Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007
Microsoft® Office Groove® 2007

Other
OpenXML File Formats
New UI extensibility model
SharePoint Designer 2007
Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 development system
Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System

 SharePoint Server 2007
Excel Services
InfoPath Forms Services
Search
Business Data Catalog
Blogs
Wikis
Workflow

We encourage you to make sure your solution interfaces with other important applications at the charity. These may include custom applications, databases or Web services. You will submit your entry via the official PowerPoint template.

 
 

When the entry period ends on October 1, the Community Judging Board will review all submitted entry forms and PowerPoint presentations. On October 16, we'll announce 20 semifinalists.

If you're a semifinalist, you'll present your solution design to our judges in a live one-on-one web cast. Soon after, we'll select 11 finalists and post the chosen designs on this site. Toward the end of the year, we'll name the grand prize, 1st-, 2nd- and 3rd-place winners.
 
   
 
 

Whether you win or not, we encourage you to put your solution design to good use. After all, helping charities is the driving force behind this competition!