Business Process and Forms

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides built-in workflow templates to automate approval, review, and archiving processes. With Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can also create, maintain, and analyze custom workflows, enabling you to streamline your collaborative processes. Electronic forms provided through InfoPath Forms Services are an integral part of such workflows. These InfoPath designed electronic forms make it easy to collect and validate information that drives your business processes. And you can collect and validate this information right from the Microsoft Office client applications you use every day.

Browser-based forms with InfoPath Forms Services

InfoPath Forms Services, which is part of Office SharePoint Server 2007, extends your reach to organizations that do not use Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 by allowing you to fill out forms in a common browser or even a HTML-enabled mobile device.

Integrated workflow and document information panel from within Microsoft Office client applications

With Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can initiate and interact with workflows right from within your Microsoft Office application. You can also collect and validate important document metadata via the document information panel.

Custom workflow design with Office SharePoint Designer 2007

Office SharePoint Designer 2007 makes it easy to add business logic to sophisticated no-code composite applications with the rules-based Workflow Designer.

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  • Whitepaper: Connecting Forms to Workflow
    In this white paper, learn the basics of the Windows Workflow Foundation, how this technology has been integrated into both Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Server 2007, and how to benefit from workflows applied to business processes.

  • Introduction to InfoPath Forms Services
    InfoPath Forms Services is a server technology built on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 as an ASP.NET version 2.0 application. It enables users to fill out Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 forms by using a Web browser instead of, or in addition to, the Office InfoPath 2007 client program.

  • Microsoft IT Showcase Technical Case Study: Streamlining Records Management Using SharePoint Server 2007 Workflow
    The Microsoft Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA) Records Management team created an efficient tracking solution on Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 and Office InfoPath 2007 to provide employees with easy access to records information and offset the need to handle all box inventory queries manually. The solution uses forms and workflows to automate the collection of inventory data.

  • Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies Workflow
    A blog entry from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog that focuses on the general overview of workflow, the guiding principles for workflow in the current product releases, and some out-of-the-box workflows from SharePoint Server 2007.

  • Get Results using electronic forms
    This page includes basic training for end users on how to work with forms and templates in 2007 Office system to streamline business processes.

  • White paper: Integrating Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SAP
    This white paper describes the innovations in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that make interoperability with SAP easier than ever.

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