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Features
InfoPath 2003 is a new program in the
Microsoft Office System that can help you gather information flexibly
and efficiently in rich, dynamic forms. You can more effectively share,
reuse, and repurpose information throughout your team or organization–improving
collaboration and decision-making to positively impact your business.
The information collected can be integrated
with a broad range of business processes because InfoPath supports any
customer-defined Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema and integrates
with Web services. As a result, InfoPath can help connect information
workers directly to organizational information and give them the ability
to act on it, which leads to greater business impact.
InfoPath is just one example of how
the Microsoft Office System is an integral part of both formal and informal
business processes in increasingly connected organizations.
Gather Information More Flexibly and
Efficiently
InfoPath provides a flexible and efficient
way to collect the information needed to make better-informed decisions.
- Make it easy to collect the right
information—the first time—with data validation, screen tips, and
conditional formatting.
- Personalize the information being
captured. Add sections to the form as you go to make the information
you gather more meaningful.
- Work with forms online or offline
to conveniently gather and manage information anywhere, anytime.
- Enjoy the familiar Microsoft Office
System environment, which minimizes training time and provides authoring
features like the spelling checker, font formatting, and other familiar
tools.
Connect People, Information, and Processes
More Effectively
InfoPath enables teams and organizations
to easily reuse and repurpose the information they collect. The information
can then be shared across business processes and organizations.
- Share, reuse, and repurpose information
across systems and processes with support for Web services.
- Enhance team collaboration by combining
InfoPath 2003 and Microsoft Windows® SharePoint™ Services.
Easily Develop and Deploy Rich, Dynamic
Forms
InfoPath makes it easy to create robust
forms solutions and to deploy and maintain forms solutions across an
organization.
- Build your own forms for gathering
information in the WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") design
mode or work with 25 ready-to-use samples.
- Include powerful features like data
validation in your forms without writing code.
- Create forms solutions using existing
customer-defined schemas.
- Publish your forms to a shared network
folder, a Web server, a Windows SharePoint Services form library,
or send them by e-mail.
- Make sure the most up-to-date form
is always available with silent and automatic downloads.
Availability
InfoPath will be available as a
single full packaged product as well as part of the Microsoft Office
2003 Suite full packaged product and other Microsoft customer and
partner licensing programs.
Pricing
InfoPath pricing is expected to be
comparable with current pricing for other Microsoft Office
applications. Final pricing will be available 60 days prior to
the Office 2003 product launch (Fall 2003).
Comparable Microsoft Technologies
- ASP.Net Web Forms
- Microsoft .Net Windows Forms
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- Visual Basic 6 Forms
- Internet Explorer DHTML Forms
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