2. Objective Show how open standards for business documents allows you to build template based, business logic oriented, rich presentation document generation solutions without installing business document applications on your server.
3. Agenda Review Document Generation Competing Standards Common Features Why Template Based Solutions Separating Business Logic From Presentation Office Open XML Demo
5. Competing Standards Microsoft Office Office Open XML (OOXML) Favored by Microsoft community Best library from Microsoft Open Source Open Document Format (ODF) Favored by Open Source community Best libraries in Java
6. Common Features Open Standards XML Based Packaged As Zip Files Do Not Require Application Binaries
14. How The SDK Tools Are Critical Thank you Document Reflector The OpenXml Diff tool increases productivity Document Validator OOXML Documentation
15. General Challenges With Document Generation Uniquely Identify Object Identifying text in charts Different containers for the same object types depending on conditions
OOXMl is still pretty new in terms of standards and implementations, but there are some success stories at this point.One of those is Research Director, Inc. out of Annapolis, MD. RDI is a radio research firm that produces presentations and documents for their customers, the radio stations. These are data heavy, very intensive presentation files – over 440 slides with 372 charts and tables. They were producing 200 presentations 4 times a year in a semi automatic process. In 2009, the frequency more than doubled and the amount of data drasticly increased. By building a system that utilizes MS SQL Server, a custom .NET application, and OOXML to generate the PPTX files.Look at the numbers … 1600 hours to 33 hours. This saved 1+ FTE and allowed RDI to meet their deadlines
