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Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework (IBF)
Links
MSDN - Information
Bridge Framework
MSDN
- Smart Tags and Smart Documents
The Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework is a set of development tools,
a metadata server, as well as a run-time component that connects the Microsoft Office
system to a company's back-end line of business (LOB) systems. It was released in
February 2003 and presented by Steve Ballmer at the Office Developer Conference
during his keynote.
The driving force behind IBF is the ability to link your company's LOB systems together
in such a fashion that information workers can be ignorant of the underlying infrastructure.
For businesses that use the Microsoft Office System for information gathering, reporting,
analysis, and collaboration, providing a method for working within this familiar
interface has many benefits.
• Lower training investment
• Single point of access to data for information workers
• A new way to view existing data that provides context to the information worker
• A new way to add and update data so the information worker can make better decisions.
IBF does not attempt to replace the role of smart clients and other enterprise applications
in the business environment. It simply provides another set of views into the back-end
data, and the actions they contain within the familiar Microsoft Office system.
In late 2005 I began writing a book for Apress on IBF, but suddenly got
very busy w/ my day job and had to cancel the book. Here are the early drafts of
chapters I submitted.
Dave Corun - Pro Information Bridge Framework Development
Chapter 0 - Introduction
Chapter 1 - Overview and Architecture
Chapter 2 - Installation
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