# Presentation: 353473

## Building Reusable InfoPath forms for US Government

***Microsoft Confidential***

- Jonny ChambersWW Lead – SSN Program
- Microsoft Corp

## Agenda

- What is the Solutions Sharing Network Program?
- How are we trying to align program with Federal Government:
- Why InfoPath?
- IT Solutions Sharing in Public Sector
- The SSN Program Pillars
- Content Aims
- Community Aims
- Hosting Aims
- Did you know?
- Suggested Approach

## Presentation Objective

- In principle agreement to explore how MS and Federal Government can collaborate on the generation on reusable eForms.

## IT Solutions Sharing in Public Sector

- Public Sector customers want to be able to share experiences, expertise and content.
- Pockets of expertise – not being utilized effectively
- ...and when expertise walks out the door, key knowledge is often lost
- Great solutions – not being reused effectively
- ...and budgets are not growing
- A lot of customers want insight/collaboration from Microsoft
- ...because we have breadth of experience and contacts
- ...because we have a global perspective

## The Solution Sharing Network ProgramDrive Information Technology solutions and best practice sharing within Public Sector technical communities

**Content**

**Communities**

**Portal**

**Research**

- Key element for government that will drive reuse and inspire new ideas

- The energy that generates content – leadership, common purpose, new connections

- A solution that can join communities and content

- How can all of this be made more effective?

## Aligning the SSN Program

- Support the collaborative development of reusable Forms in Microsoft InfoPath.

## Why InfoPath

- XML based at the core.
- Offline Capability
- Extensible – forms can be tailored on the fly based on responses
- Understands Web Services natively

## Content Aims

- Build an impactful set of InfoPath forms that will:
- Provide more choice for US Citizens, Businesses, Gov Departments.
- Drive XML as a key entry point to government.
- Inspire a community of form developers.
- Enable US to make progress against Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness objectives.

## Community Aims

- Support the already established xmlCoP in attaining any necessary skills to author/publish forms.
- Important that community is self-sustaining.
- Training will be a key success factor.

## Hosting Aims

- Align with US Government Policy
- Host final InfoPath fat client form templates at _[www.forms.gov](http://www.forms.gov/)_
- Support with collaborative XMLCoP site at _[www.core.gov](http://www.core.gov/)_

## Did you know?

- The license coverage for InfoPath today in US government is substantial because many government agencies have usage rights via Enterprise Agreements
- We want to better demonstrate the value of what you already own.
- In future your options will become more flexible:
- Office Forms Server - no requirement for InfoPath on every desktop

## Approach

- Identify organizations/forms /usage scenarios to target for building in InfoPath
- Focus on specific agencies
- Focus on citizen-centric forms OR internal government usage forms
- Etc.
- Identify Community of potential form authors/standards/schema contributors
- Closely collaborate upfront, or provide converted forms for review?
- Identify Partner to collaborate with author community on production of forms – what should their role be?
- Implement forms.
- Upload forms to _[www.forms.gov](http://www.forms.gov/)_.

## Questions?

## Appendix

- Other examples of successful content sharing around globe.

## Parthenay - France

## The Borough of Newham – CRM Solution 

## LGCSB

- LGCSB – Local Government Computer Services Board
- Provide central IT Services to 35 Municipalities in Ireland
- Hosting, Consultancy, Support, Network Management, Procurement Frameworks, etc
- Had ‘remote’ pockets of expertise in Geographical Information Systems application development
- Had valuable content, and basic community structures, but no consistent mechanisms to share with peers
- Email? Phone? Shared Folders? SharePoint?
- SSN Deployed to support GIS Community
- "All government agencies share common technological and administrative challenges. By taking advantage of the Solutions Sharing Network, Local Government in Ireland has been able to establish **a valuable knowledge bank that will bring tremendous benefit to our community**. The development of an SSN is a significant step forward in sharing and collaborative technologies for ICT communities across all governments."
*Tim Willoughby, Assistant Director, Local Government Computer Services Board (Ireland)*

## SSN Info

- Contacts:
- Jonny Chambers – SSN Program Manager_[jonncha@microsoft.com](mailto:jonncha@microsoft.com)_
- _[solshare@microsoft.com](mailto:solshare@microsoft.com)_
- Extranet Website:
- _[https://ssn.team.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/](https://ssn.team.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/)_
- External Website:
- _[http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/SolutionSharingNetwork.mspx](http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/SolutionSharingNetwork.mspx)_