Seybold Seminars Announces Blockbuster eForms Summit at Seybold Seminars Amsterdam 2004.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Seybold Seminars Amsterdam 2004 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2004 Summit Highlights Emerging eForms Technologies and Standards from Microsoft, Adobe and W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). Seybold Seminars(R) today announced its eForms Summit, part of Seybold Seminars(R) Amsterdam 2004. The summit will be offered on Tuesday, April 20, as a part of the overall conference offering for Seybold Seminars(R) Amsterdam, taking place April 18-21 at the RAI rai n. A form of popular Algerian music combining traditional Arabic vocal styles with various elements of popular Western music and featuring outspoken, often controversial lyrics. Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The eForms Summit will focus on the primary products, technologies and business issues that are expected to drive the electronic forms (eForms) market in the coming years. The summit will focus on Adobe's recently announced Forms Designer product, which seeks to combine XML's interoperability with the presentation qualities of PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. ; Microsoft's recently introduced InfoPath product, part of the new XML-enabled Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. 2003; and the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) XForms 1.0 standard, recently released by the interoperability forum as a recommendation. "Traditional eForms are no longer sufficiently interoperable for today's businesses. People want choices as to how forms are designed and connected to products from various suppliers," said Hans Hartman, president of Suite 48 and chair of the summit. "Our eForms Summit provides a neutral platform to learn about the breaking eForms technologies that could generate tremendous cost savings over paper-based systems or less flexible existing eForms implementations." Strong Industry Participation "In order to affect true business success, eForms must become a part of the fabric of a company's business processes throughout the global enterprise. This demands broadly-deployable, interoperable methods of creating forms and connecting them to existing customer specific back-end systems, regardless of the data source or sender. The eForms Summit at Seybold Seminars(R) Amsterdam 2004 is the perfect opportunity to push the transformation from paper-based to e-forms to the next level." -- Rajesh Jha, InfoPath General Manager, Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, "With XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , the portability of data is increasingly becoming a given; however, portability of business logic and user-interface behavior, which directly relate to the effectiveness of e-forms, is not. In order to drive industry adoption of standards such as XForms, which support this type of portability, we need to be able to meet at the same table. Seybold Seminars(R) Amsterdam 2004's eForms Summit is that forum." -- Steven Pemberton Steven Pemberton (born February 19, 1953) is one of the developers of the ABC programming language and of the Views system. He is chair of the W3C HTML and XForms Working Groups. , chair of the W3C XForms working group More About The Educational Forums eForms Summit content will include information from leading industry practitioners, pundits and analysts on issues such as: how to leverage complementing solutions; the specifics of each of the three leading technologies -- XForms 1.0-based products, Adobe Form Designer and Microsoft InfoPath Microsoft InfoPath (full name Microsoft Office InfoPath) is an application used to develop XML-based data entry forms, first released as part of the Microsoft Office 2003 suite of programs in late 2003 and later released as part of Microsoft Office 2007. ; real-world case studies; and next generation technologies. Specific Tuesday sessions include: -- The State of the eForms Market, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. -- Real-World Case Studies, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. -- W3C's XForms Unplugged, 2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. -- Microsoft Office InfoPath Unplugged, 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. -- Adobe's Forms Designer Unplugged, 5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. For more information on the specific sessions and speakers, please visit www.Seybold365.com/ams2004. Seybold Seminars(R) Amsterdam and its sister event in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden provide a global platform for companies to learn about, test-drive and purchase technologies for creative professionals and the print and enterprise publishing markets. Seybold Seminars(R) Amsterdam 2004 will focus on workflows and developments in PDF and JDF JDF Job Definition Format (XML-based format for workflow and control information) JDF Jamaica Defence Force JDF Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International JDF Job Description Form JDF Japan Defense Force JDF Jackson Drop Forge Company , print publishing; creative technologies; and content management. The conference will be co-located with XML Europe 2004, and the events will share pavilion and demo areas. For more information about Seybold Seminars(R) Amsterdam 2004, please visit www.Seybold365.com/ams2004, or contact James Smith James Smith is the name of: People named James Smith Sports figures
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