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The adoption of Open XML as the standard will greatly facilitate the integration of information sources (internal and/or external), thus streamlining processes, increasing productivity, and creating new business opportunities.

Manuel Mira Godinho
Partner
Accenture, Portugal

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The Open XML community is a group of public institutions, businesses, technology professionals, academics, and developers who support ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML as an ISO/IEC standard. This community believes in the promotion of choice, interoperability, innovation, and technical excellence in document standards. Read on to see how Open XML is being used across a broad set of technology platforms, integrated with diverse systems, and adopted as a standard in businesses and governments across the globe.

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June 17, 2009

News Agency Integrates Editorial Processes with Familiar Productivity Tools

Associated Press (AP), who produce independent news content for thousands of news outlets around the globe, is setting up it's next generation news room using Microsoft® Office Word 2007 and Microsoft® Sharepoint Server.

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May 11, 2009

Open XML Formats Simplify Digital Exchange of Health Information in Brazil

The Applied Information Technology Laboratory at the São Paulo State University (UnESP), Brazil, conducts technology research projects. The lab helped doctors comply with a new XML-based standard for exchanging health data over the Internet. Researchers used Open XML Formats to embed the mandated XML schema compliant data into a form using Microsoft® Office Word 2007. Now doctors can fill out the form while simultaneously complying with the new standard.

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May 11, 2009

Microsoft IT Uses Open XML Formats to Deliver Scorecarding Solution over the Web

The Microsoft IT Business Intelligence Center of Excellence Core Scorecard Team created a Microsoft® Office Excel®–based interactive decision support application that was used by more than 3,000 people worldwide. When the team received a directive to Web-enable its application to reach more people, it turned to Excel Services in Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007, and used OpenXML to manipulate the file's parts and it's type.

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May 5, 2009

Content Technologies Uses Open XML Formats to Differentiate Authoring Solution

Content Technologies is well known in the topic-based content management solution market. The company created DITA Exchange to capitalize on the popularity of Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), an XML-based solution for topic-based authoring. To reduce sales barriers to DITA Exchange, and drive its competitive advantage it used Open XML Formats and the 2007 Microsoft® Office system.

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May 3, 2009

Tyson Foods Improves Collaboration and Business Insight, Creates Process Efficiencies

Every day, the 15,000 information workers at Tyson Foods share information with one another to develop and market hundreds of products. To speed employee connections, strengthen business insight, and improve efficiency, Tyson Foods deployed Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 as its companywide collaboration platform

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Freedom to choose a document format standard that best suits the task at hand is important to businesses, governments, and individuals. Joining the Open XML community lends your continued support of Open XML as an ISO/IEC standard.

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