Microsoft has released the Office Information Bridge Framework, a “technology” that enables developers to add functionality to Office applications to allow users access to information from back-end data/business systems from within their Office System 2003 applications.
The Information Bridge Framework requires:
- Visual Studio .Net 2003 for developers
- A Windows Server 2003 (running IIS 6 and SQL Server 2000)
- And Office System 2003, plus Version 1.1 of the Microsoft .Net Framework
If you can meet all those requirements, you’ll probably be interested in reading more details and maybe getting a download of the beta:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/ibframework
We saw some demo’s at the Office Launch of the sorts of tools that can be built with this, and integrated into, say Word, in that new “task pane” interface … there is some cool stuff in there in terms of opportunities for businesses to build out information access right into the tools where you need to use the infromation.
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