Microsoft’s 2007 Office System provides a platform for building composite solutions, called Office Business Applications (OBAs), designed to support cross-functional processes and allow information workers to collaborate.

Assembled from a company’s current collection of information assets, OBAs allow global information workers to gain insight, collaborate, make decisions, and take action -- as we move from a transactional world to a collaborative one, our tools must also change.

Get the reference implementation
Download the OBA Reference Application Pack for SCM. You can use this as an example of building OBAs in your own organization, or even use this as a starter kit to jump start building your own OBAs. You will need to have a beta 2 version of the 2007 Office System if you wish to deploy this.

Why build composite applications on the 2007 Office System?
Learn more about composite applications, and how to build them on the 2007 Office System. This is explained in the context of the OBA Reference Application Pack for SCM.

How do you build composite applications on the 2007 Office System?
This presentation provides very detailed information on how the OBA Reference Application Pack for SCM was actually built. There is guidance around roles and responsibilities as well, to get a feel for the development model required to build these kinds of applications.

What does a composite application built on the 2007 Office System feel like for end users?
This presentation gives a feel for what the user experience will be like for end users, as they use an Office Business Application.

See the Microsoft site for more details