The template for the Office XP Developer Digital Dashboard project includes tools for building Web Parts or complete Digital Dashboards that run against Exchange 2000 Server or the new Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server. The Dashboard Template and Web Part Designer can be used as standalone applications or opened as a project in the Microsoft development environment. In either case, Gurry says, developers can benefit from the features of this environment. Their XML-basedsolution, employs a digital dashboard that helps employees generate proposals quickly using Microsoft Word 2002. Beyond the technology required to capture and organize the information necessary to build a proposal, Sullivan says the solution also offers a comprehensive knowledge-management system that makes it easy to train new staff and customers and include them in the proposal process.
Developers can also design their own Web parts based on workflow applications they design.
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