SWING Software today announced the availability of SWING InOffice 2.0, software that fully integrates MS Office and PDF with Lotus Notes. The new version simplifies document creation and distribution, Notes reporting, and data transfer. In addition, with the new built-in PDF converter, InOffice enables Notes users to create and email PDF documents with ease.(PRWEB December 02, 2003-- SWING Software today announced the availability of SWING InOffice 2.0, software that fully integrates MS Office and PDF with Lotus Notes. The new version simplifies document creation and distribution, Notes reporting, and data transfer. In addition, with the new built-in PDF converter, InOffice enables Notes users to create and email PDF documents with ease.SWING InOffice is the first tool for Lotus Notes that provides MS Office integration and PDF conversion in a single package, removing the need for an external PDF tool."Business users expect to be able to use their familiar MS Office applications within the Lotus Notes environment, for document authoring, reporting and data analysis," said David Jakelic, SWING Software`s CEO. "By integrating MS Office and PDF with Lotus Notes, organizations gain at least two benefits: improving end-user productivity, and reducing the burden on the IT department."SWING InOffice lets users bind Office documents with any Notes database, without any design change or programming. It allows users to easily populate Office document templates with Notes data, producing personalized letters, printing labels, Excel reports and charts, and more. The resulting documents and reports can be distributed in the form of printed documents, faxes, or emails - either in the native format or as PDF documents.Using Microsoft Office rich formatting and printing capabilities, Notes users are able to overcome the limited printing and reporting functions in Lotus Notes, leveraging their existing skills and investments. Furthermore, InOffice 2 can be used for importing documents and spreadsheets into Lotus Notes databases. It transforms data structures such as master/detail Excel forms into Notes documents, either as main/response documents, or multivalue fields. For the end-user, it takes only a single click in the InOffice wizard to perform such an import operation.Support for Excel reports and charts has been greatly improved in the new version. Besides the standard "view-to-Excel" features, InOffice 2 produces compound reports, using data from single or multiple Notes databases. Users can take advantage of advanced features in Excel such as PivotTables, conditional styling, and drilldown to analyze Notes data without having to purchase specialized OLAP tools. Instead of relying on IT department developing yet another static Notes view, business users can now employ familiar Excel features to re-categorize and chart Notes data.SWING InOffice provides an Office template database for documents and reports. By maintaining a centrally managed template database, organizations can easily enforce consistency of all business forms and documents. Using pre-formatted professional Office templates, bound to Notes data, business users save time and reduce errors in their daily work.SWING InOffice supports Lotus Notes versions 5 and 6, and Microsoft Office 97, 2000, XP and 2003.Pricing and AvailabilitySWING InOffice 2.0 is now available directly from SWING Software and their business partners. A 5 user pack costs $750 (USD). There are substantial discounts on volume purchases. A 30% introductory discount will be given till the end of December 2003. An evaluation copy can be requested and downloaded from the company`s website http://www.swingsoftware.comAbout SWING SoftwareSWING Software is the leading provider of Microsoft Office integration for Lotus Notes/Domino, with a broad customer base in over 50 countries. For more information, visit http://www.swingsoftware.com.
