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Q1: Simply describe InfoPath 2003?
InfoPath 2003 enables the creation of rich, dynamic forms that teams and organizations can use to gather, share, reuse, and manage information—improving collaboration and decision-making throughout your organization.
Q2: REASON #1 of 10 Benefits for using InfoPath
1) 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.
Q3: REASON #2 of 10 Benefits for using InfoPath
2) 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 information—even when it resides in disparate, incompatible systems.
Q4: REASON #3 of 10 Benefits for using InfoPath
3) 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.
Q5: REASON #4 of 10 Benefits for using InfoPath
4) Collaborate more effectively with team members.
InfoPath integrates with MS Windows® SharePoint™ Services to provide a quick and easy way for teams to collaborate using Windows SharePoint Services form libraries.
Q6: REASON #5 of 10 Benefits for using InfoPath
5) 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 forms—such as extending or adding a section—while they're filling them out to provide better context and make the information more meaningful.
Q7: REASON #6 of 10 Benefits for using InfoPath
6) 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.
Q8: REASON #7 of 10 Benefits for using InfoPath
7) Reduce training needs.
InfoPath uses the familiar, easy-to-use MS Office System authoring environment, reducing training time and providing rich authoring features—including text formatting, bulleted lists, tables, images, and spelling checker.
Q9: REASON #8 of 10 Benefits for using InfoPath
8) 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.
Q10: REASON #9 of 10 Benefits for using InfoPath
9) 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.
Q11: REASON #10 of 10 Benefits for using InfoPath
10) Easily deploy and maintain InfoPath solutions throughout your organization.
The server-based deployment model makes InfoPath 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.
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