Ecma Open XML stories Darren Strange - PowerPoint Presentation

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Ecma Open XML stories

Darren Strange

Senior Product Manager

Information Worker Business Group

UK

http://blogs.msdn.com/officerocker

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Ecma Open XML stories Darren StrangeUK Product Manager, Microsoft Office systemEcma

Open XML

4 stories about partners use of new format

Faster to marketEase of useNew marketsSlide3

Ecma Open XML applications

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, the spin doctors vent their rectums all day. That is why these

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of cells, mutants of tumors like Darren Strange have their gaseous excrement sent to the press all day.”Slide4

Ecma Open XML applicationsSlide5
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Software Vendor Expands Customer Base with Product Built on New File Format

“The file format in the 2007 Microsoft Office system—Ecma Office Open XML—has made a huge difference to what we can offer our customers. We couldn’t have built the Fractal Map Add-In for Excel 2007 without it.”

Gervase Clifton-Bligh, Vice President of Product Strategy and Development,

Fractal Edge

Fractal Edge help organisations visualise complex data through its product,

Fractal Maps

Companies had been producing sophisticated reports for years, But when they published them to a wider audience, these employees lacked the skills to interpret or manipulate the information to their advantage.

Fractal Edge recognised that the

company could diversify its customer base

by offering a ‘lighter ‘ version of Fractal Maps that worked on top of a familiar and well-known application.

Excel 2007 was a natural choice because of the inclusion of the new Ecma Office Open XML file format

Clifton-Bligh explains “Our thinking was that Excel was a broadly distributed application. And, in the 2007 edition, the configuration controls for pivot tables were well known and substantially improved.”

Sharing Fractal Maps only requires

one file

with Excel 2007

As an open standard, the published specifications for the new Microsoft Office file formats are available with a royalty-free

licence

, which means developers

can freely access the full documentation

and quickly learn how to integrate Office files into their solutions.

Reduced risk of file corruption when manipulating file data

Expansion of the number of users

who can use the Fractal Maps solutionSlide7
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Software Vendor Reduces Cost of Revolutionary Reporting Tool with Ecma Office Open XML and New Development Environment

“Shorter development times have helped us to drive down the seat price of the application well beneath the threshold where procurement teams need to get involved. This means we can increase revenues based on a high-volume model, selling from the smallest to the largest enterprise.”

Andrew Wiles, Managing Director, iT-Workplace

iT-Workplace’s vision was simple, by introducing financial intelligence into common applications, more employees would be able to understand and interpret data and, therefore, contribute more to their

organisation

.

Originally the plan was to introduce reporting into Microsoft Office Word.

However, iT-Workplace built a new solution called Word for OLAP. Its next challenge came in trying to keep up with an enterprise-level company’s procurement model.

Procurement challenges forced the company to review its software roadmap and the overall direction of its business.

iT-Workplace took part in the Microsoft Independent Software Vendor Power Programme for the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

iT-Workplace revisited OLAP for Word and redeveloped it.

The result is a unique application called Intelligencia for Word 2007 that embeds reporting functionality usually only available in Microsoft Office Excel.

Shorter

development times

Sophisticated functionality, but

little training required

Employees work in a

natural medium

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Avoid procurement challenge due to

lower outlay for prospective customers

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Company Builds Highly Flexible Version of Document-Protection Tool with New Standard

“As an open standard, Open XML is extensible. It can be read by applications and solutions across the world, so businesses can exchange data seamlessly between their software applications.”

Robin Glover, Chief Software Architect, Workshare

Professionals work with documents that are

tightly regulated by privacy rules.

They can rely on software, which checks outgoing e-mails for information that might give away sensitive data, helping to protect the integrity of their businesses.

For developers, the file format the software supports makes a

significant difference to the programming process

.

Binary formats are difficult to interpret and never fully interoperable. Plus, they are very hard to modify.

Unlike the binary file format on which Microsoft applications have been developed for many years,

the 2007 Microsoft Office system now supports Ecma Office Open XML.

Workshare has a suite of products which are currently being developed using binary and the Open XML file formats allowing

first-hand understanding of the key differences

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Customer s are now able to adopt an Open XML version of Workshare’s ‘Protect Enterprise’.

Automation of document detection and cleaning

Vastly reduce d development time

for new iteration of Protect Enterprise.

Smaller file sizes

reduce stress on data storag

e and email bandwidth

Open XML file format offers

flexibility to represent everything normally seen in an Office Word document

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Mortgage Lender Generates Forms and Letters Faster with XML-Based Document Production Solution

“Now that Open XML has been ratified as an open standard, businesses  

can use it as the basis of their IT systems, safe in the knowledge that the documents they produce will be fully compatible and future proof.”

Dan Scarfe, Chief Executive Officer, Dot Net Solutions

Financial Services Authority (FSA) rules

govern the layout

and content of key facts illustration (KFI) documents.

Money Partners need to comply with these rules to avoid tough penalties. Until recently, each time the FSA amended these rules, the company had to

change each of its 50 mortgage-related documents

individually.

Time taken to make small changes to templates was starting to add up.

Money Partners engaged Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner Dot Net Solutions and evaluated the software developer’s X-Merge product.

The key to its effectiveness lies in the technology on which it is built

—international open standard,

Ecma

Office Open XML.

X-Merge is similar to the mail merge function available in Microsoft Office Word. Unlike ordinary Word mail merge, this

system gives them the tools to create more detailed documents quickly.

Day to day users able to manipulate templates

without expensive development time

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Throughput of

hundreds of documents

per minute

Elimination of re-keying

resulting in less mistakes

Reduced backlog of document creationSlide11

Case studies availableSlide12

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