Office InfoPath 2003

• Platform:   Windows 2000
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Top 10 Benefits of Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 enables the creation of rich, dynamic forms that teams and organizations can use to gather, share, reuse, and manage informationimproving collaboration and decision-making throughout your organization. Here are the top 10 ways InfoPath can help you gather and manage information more effectively.
Connect people, information, and processes more effectively.
Support for XML and Web services can help you access organizational business systems and processes from the desktop. People in your organization can more effectively view business information, enabling them to make better decisions and take more effective action.
Access information previously trapped in disparate, incompatible systems.
Using industry-standard technologies such as XML and XML Web services, InfoPath offers built-in support so that people throughout your organization can access and use informationeven when it resides in disparate, incompatible systems.
Reduce repetitious and inefficient data entry.
InfoPath supports XML, helping you collect and reuse information throughout your organization. This can prevent you from unnecessarily re-entering the data and increase your productivity.
Collaborate more effectively with team members.
InfoPath integrates with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to provide a quick and easy way for teams to collaborate using Windows SharePoint Services form libraries.
Gather information more flexibly and accurately.
Easy-to-use forms in InfoPath simplify and streamline the process of gathering information, and built-in data validation increases the accuracy of the information you enter. Repeating sections and optional fields allow users to dynamically customize formssuch as extending or adding a sectionwhile they're filling them out to provide better context and make the information more meaningful.
Gather and work with information anywhere, anytime.
Work with InfoPath forms while connected to the network or offline to collect and manage information anywhere, anytime. If you're working offline, you can synchronize your data when you reconnect.
Reduce training needs.
InfoPath uses the familiar, easy-to-use Microsoft Office System authoring environment, reducing training time and providing rich authoring featuresincluding text formatting, bulleted lists, tables, images, and spelling checker.
Quickly create easy-to-use forms.
Use the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) capability of the design mode to easily create custom forms, or work with 25 ready-to-use sample forms.
Develop sophisticated form solutions more easily.
InfoPath has an extensible architecture that can help programmers develop robust, sophisticated solutions using the built-in script editor, rich object models, and programmable task panes. Easily create forms from scratch or from existing data schemas, Web services, or Extensible Markup Language (XML) data.
Easily deploy and maintain InfoPath solutions throughout your organization.
The server-based deployment model makes Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 forms available to everyone in an organization, and built-in version control detects when the solution has been updated so that users always have the most up-to-date forms.

Product Description
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. S27-00001

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