Microsoft Office Connector Update at SMWCon Spring 2011

Microsoft Office Connector Update
What’s New on Connecting Office Users

Agenda
Microsoft Office Connector Review
What is bothering me?
MOCCAT
New prototype
MOCCAT!

Microsoft Office Connector
Leverage Microsoft Office applications and technology
Bring SMW info to Office applications on-demand
API for data I/O: add and modify wiki data within Microsoft Office
Utilize semantics to improve relevance
Smart actions for semantic properties
API
API
Connections
Smart
Jesse Wang | SemTech 2010

Semantics in Office Apps
Dynamic Query Results from the article page
Outlook
Multiple Wiki Sites supported
Excel
WikiTags recognizes the keywords or phrases relevant to you

Semantic Actions
Semantic actions are based on semantic services of properties

M.O.C. Forms
View Semantic Content in familiar forms
Contribute into Wiki articles back

Screenshot::Email in Wiki
Attachments automatically uploaded too

Live Demo
Standard MediaWiki API Support
Wiki Object Model API Support
Auto Hyperlinking
Auto Display Info Pane
Auto Tag Keywords
Semantic Actions
In-place Browsing
…

But I’m *not* Happy
In spite of applauses during demos

No Sales

Market?
Mature SMW Market?  Chicken and egg problem
You can help:
#1:
Try it out
Let others know
Let us know you will use it if …
#2:
Look at it (no need to really install it)
Let us know you will *not* use it …
Unless it has …

Price
It used to be €20
Free
As in free beer.

Quality
We had some issues but no core issues
We improve on quality:
Full-time tester
Expert developer to help!
Better design
Less dependency

Features
Demos were successful
People seemed very interested
Features were reasonably rich for a v1 product
We could add more features
But …
I need endorsement

We Need Customers

Announcing
MOCCAT
Microsoft Office Connector
Customer Advocate Team

MOCCAT
Meet (telecon) every 3 or 4 weeks
Talk about specifications, bugs, priorities
Beta-testing (optional)
Email jessew@vulcan.com to sign up

Thank You!

Microsoft Office Connector Update at SMWCon Spring 2011

by Jesse Wang

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