I’m currently attending XPlor 2007 Conference, and I’m also speaking about how enterprises can implement an Open Standards based Document Service that is used for all output related tasks throughout the enterprise.
I has been very interesting until now. The keynote session was, as always, a lot of marketing blabla, many thank you statements etc. Despite that all, it still proved to be very interesting, when reading in between the marketing lines.
Multiple channels, cross-media
This was interesting to hear. "Communicating with people is not a question of either paper or electronic documents. It is a matter of both paper
and electronic documents." Web, PDA, interactive television, interactive forms on these channels, brochures, podcasts, ... It is a matter of making optimal use the broad range of available channels, all together.This depends on many factors: customer preference, content, the environment where the recipient is located (in a plane, on vacation, at work, at home, ...). The right information at the right time on the right location in the right format... That\'s why its important to have one solution to handle all these channels. Yay,
Scriptura can do that!
Disruptive Technologies
John Parsons (Seybold) told that we don\'t really know what the next disruptive technology will be, but he doesn\'t believe that it will replace what we have today. It will come as an addition to what we have today. We still listen to the radio, although there is TV now.
What does change, he said, is the way people look at information. People look at tiny bits of information, and don\'t spend the time to read entire papers or articles, resulting in smaller articles.
XPS
Microsoft actively promoted XPS, the XML Paper Specification (previously called Metro). It is the spool file format of Windows Vista, and all Windows Vista PC (or Windows XP machines with an XPS driver installed) can generate XPS. For many environments, this will be a big competitor to PDF.