Daily Archive: March 4, 2005
A week ago I blogged a little about InfoPath and the fact that Bill Gates had said that InfoPath will probably be the closest thing today to the dominant Microsoft forms technology moving forward, so Bill why not just buy InfoView and leave InfoPath for forms design and offline usage scenarios. What’s InfoView:
With InfoView your organisation can:
- Publish InfoPath forms to the web – providing external users who do not have InfoPath on their desktops the same rich and dynamic user experience of InfoPath forms with web forms
- Leverage XML standards to capture data via web forms and route data into back-end systems with no manual operation
Just recently I read a blog post (which I can no longer find) that cast doubt on the business case for portable computers. The basic argument went like this:
- Portable users worked for 14% more hours
- Portable users produced 13% more work
- Therefore portable users were 1% less efficient
Assuming I remember this correctly it seems a pretty strange analysis, so here is my counter analysis. First the case for portables and productivity:
- Portable users do more hours when they have a portable device because it allows them to work when they would otherwise be undertaking some leisure activity, depending on the portable device in questions, these times are most often, whilst waiting in airports, travelling by train, sitting in front of the TV etc.
- Portable users do more hours because its easier to “just spend an hour” working at the weekend, than it is to drive to work and do it there
- Portable users spend more time with access to time critical information sources, email, IM etc and so respond faster reducing lead-times, and improving decision making
- Portable users make better use of their time in the office, processing email, expenses and other low low importance high volume tasks tend to …
