Military terms abound in the corporate world. Red flags. Heads up. Gung-ho. And then there is âmission-critical,â often used figuratively. For Basic Black, LLC, of Gainesville, Florida, which makes bullet-resistant equipment for special forces soldiers, the term is literal, and so is its reliance on Microsoft Office Professional 2010 in enabling secure collaboration among its distributed talent pool across three continents, saving it more than US$30,000 a year.
