MS Office as a Development Tool

MS Office as a development tool is very powerful. The world largest Military application is Jfast. (pure BI)

The auto-brief capabilities of the application use Ms office as development tool. The program manipulate the content of the briefing and move data in and out of the applications, building a Word document with Excel graphs while simultaneously preparing a finished briefing on the output of the analysis using PowerPoint and creating the presentation documents, graphs, slides covering the analysis of the deployment.

Check a review here:

http://www.advisor.com/Articles.nsf/aidp/RUBEM67

MS object model is very powerful, Office automation components is a viable technology.

See these links:

http://visualbasic.about.com/cs/office/

http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone16/

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Maxwell