IT Developer Speeds Time-to-Market Using Open XML Formats

To stay competitive and open to innovations in the software development market, Programmer's opted to use Open XML Formats when developing its electronic invoicing application. The solution, now in a Release Candidate version, took seven months to build and will be released to the market in March or April 2008. The application was based on Microsoft Office Excel, a program that is familiar to most developers and does not require specific knowledge of a robust hardware framework. Programmer's enjoyed a 50 percent gain in productivity and improved utilization of financial and intellectual resources. Another major benefit was interoperability, since its application can be used on any system that runs Open XML.