Organization that has replaced MS Office with OpenOffice in its software environment already feels advantages of such replacement – first of all in reducing software cost as far as OpenOffice is free open source solution.

Export To MS Office feature: it’s convenient and already implemented

But when we change one element of environment inner structure we discover all those relationships and data flows that connected this element with others.

At the moment a number of third party applications have Export To MS Office feature. Accounting reports, constructing estimates, summaries and printing forms – everything of these can be exported to MS Office.

When you pay for such software product you also pay for Export feature implemented inside. Why is it so commonly used? It saves time, it makes information more systemized and it’s just convenient!

Refuse? No way!

So should we refuse of estimations reports in Excel spreadsheets or formatted Word documents with data in ready-to-print form when choosing OpenOffice? No way!

Inspired by OpenOffice solution ApriorIT Inc. created free technology of AutomateIT! This technology “translates” export to MS Office requests for the corresponding OpenOffice application. Thus when AutomateIT! product is installed on a computer all application export requests are intercepted and redirected to OpenOffice: for example Export to MS Word document command will start OpenOffice Writer with corresponding document formed and so on.

Main idea of AutomateIT! technology is using COM objects to model corresponding MS Office objects and translating MS Office methods and properties to the those understood by OpenOffice.

At the moment a great number of basic properties and methods are implemented so Export To MS Office feature is supported for a lot of applications.

Demand individual approach!

The inner environment of each organization is almost unique. ApriorIT releases new versions of AutomateIT! rather often but there still may be situations when not all of relationships and element features are taken into account in the current version. It means that some applications use special properties and/or methods of MS Office objects.

What can we do in this situation? Use individual approach of course!

ApriorIT Inc. tunes AutomateIT! technology for the concrete organization software environment. Here ApriorIT already has positive experience of individual tuning.

One happy-end story of one business OpenOffice user

For example Dukhin Construction Inc. that is involved in regional shop constructing business decided to use OpenOffice but faced with some problems when deploying it. As it was discovered some key applications in their business process included Export to MS Office feature and the obtained exported data were widely used.

Namely they use:

1. Quick Books Pro for accounting with all its reports in MS Excel.
2. Visual Mind Business for project management with data ready for printing in MS Word.
3. Custom application of making construction designs and estimations that generates calculations in MS Excel files.

During some period specialists of Dukhin Construction Inc. were making all necessary data files in OpenOffice manually but it took so much time and efforts that could not be adopted. IT Department faced with the question of returning to MS Office. The company had about 20 workstations to that moment and that meant about $7000 to perform reverse replacement.

Fortunately research performed by IT Department discovered AutomateIT! technology. It was deployed but some of export requests were not performed correctly. Then specialists of Dukhin Construction Inc. contacted with ApriorIT.

In just 4 days AutomateIT! product was perfectly tuned for this company environment. All export requests including those from the company custom application were performed absolutely correct.

How much did it cost for Dukhin Construction Inc.? Not a single dollar. AutomateIT! is free solution and ApriorIT made its tuning for free.

We are ready to work for free

ApriorIT always looks for opportunity to gain more experience in professional and organizational scope. Working with different environments and applications gives us more understanding of process, more knowledge of export issues and improve our professional qualities.

Still doubting?

There are 1000s of organizations using OpenOffice. 10 of them already used our first free offer and got the transparent Export to OpenOffice feature absolutely free. Reserve your place in the next 10 of them by asking for free AutomateIT! tuning now. Just let us know about your interest – and be in the first ten.

We will be glad to help you!

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