[legalxml-econtracts] InfoWorld: Microsoft's unified app goals comesinto view: February 24, 2003: By Ed Scannell,Mark Jones,Paul Krill:Application Development

[Jason Harrop <jharrop@speedlegal.com>]

 From InfoWorld article of February 24, 2003 entitled  "Microsoft's 
unified app goals comes into view"  By Ed Scannell,Mark Jones,Paul Krill:

"If you write a contract in Word and you have an application some place 
that keeps track of contract terms — and you want to make sure the 
purchasing you are doing with a particular supplier is consistent with 
those contract terms, today it would be very difficult to do that," said 
John Jerome, an analyst with The Yankee Group in Boston. "Users need to 
take that Word document and pull the key pieces of data out and put it 
into a contract management system so you can enforce purchasing 
regulations against that contract.''

In this scenario, users could make their XML-based data readily 
available to their contract management system, which would produce a 
"rippling effect of efficiencies," in that all purchases would 
automatically be checked for contractual compliance, Jerome said.

<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/24/08ibmlotus_1.html?development>

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