Office 2.0 Mashup Demo and Simple Ajax Mashup Best Practice

ShareMethods has collaborated with iNetOffice to develop an Office 2.0 four-way mashup demo; the online demo illustrates benefits for a “Day in the Life of a Salesperson working in an Office 2.0 World”.

In addition, a preliminary set of best practices have been developed to support interoperability across online office applications with a focus on document exchange, Single Sign-On (SSO), and “cut and paste”; the draft spec is called “Simple Ajax Mashup”.

Check out the Office 2.0 mashup demo via: http://www.inetword.com/mashup/mashup.html

Review the Simple Ajax Mashup (SAM) spec via:http://www.inetword.com/mashup/SAM%20Spec.html

Please contact us if you would like to contribute to the evolution of the Simple Ajax Mashup specification to improve the end-user experience working with documents online; we’d also like to extend an invitation to join the mashup demo to show the user community a vision of the power and potential of Office 2.0.

More information on the mashup demo is below:

A Day in the Life of a Salesperson working in an Office 2.0 World

Online document creation, management, and sharing can provide valuable capabilities for sales teams – for example the creation of online documents for sales proposals and reports; online spreadsheets, for sales reports; and online presentations such as web delivered sales presentations for key prospects.

Demo: An enterprise mashup was created to show the power and potential of what can be achieved for end-users with Office 2.0 services. The mash-up shows the ease with which a sales user can leverage an online document editor to build a dynamically generated sales proposal using customer data from an on-demand CRM database. The sales user can easily search, share, and convert the online sales proposal into Word or PDF formats.  The Office 2.0 enterprise mash-up leverages a number of best-of-breed on-demand services to build an integrated and focused user experience – essentially one place to go to create, manage, and share online documents of many types.

Office 2.0 Enterprise Mash-Up for Sales Teams: The enterprise mashup was developed by ShareMethods and iNetOffice with inclusion of Thumbstacks and salesforce.com. Online services used in the Office 2.0 enterprise mashup include  

• Online documents: iNetWord, an online word processor with rich functionality targeted at the enterprise and SMB markets (developed by iNetOffice), written in
  AJAX
• Online presentations: Thumbstacks, an online presentation creation and display service, written in
  AJAX
• Online document management: ShareMethods, and its service for salesforce.com called ShareNow for AppExchange
• Online CRM: salesforce.com for on-demand CRM, AppExchange to manage custom web tabs, links, and on-demand applications.

The collaboration between multiple Office 2.0 companies to support the development of this mashup is a validation of what can be achieved by working together on interoperability, standards, user experience, etc. 

Office 2.0 Enterprise Mash-Up Technical Elements: Document and data level integration via web services and protocols was used (1) to enable iNetWord to save documents into ShareNow for AppExchange; and (2) to generate and save dynamic documents, where iNetWord pulls CRM data from salesforce.com via web services (AppForce) and then iNetWord can write the resulting document back into ShareNow via another web services layer for document exchange. 

Office 2.0 Enterprise Benefits: The benefits to end-users are (1) speeding the time to create and share content for sales people (custom sales proposals and contracts) (2) ease of personalizing documents for prospects and customers; and (3) ease of anytime anywhere anyplace access for collaborative work via a single repository for online documents.