Cheryl Battan - Microsoft
AND
Vikki Jensen - Itemfield
"Managed Rapid Revisions"

Itemfield apparently can convert any data
Now they offer a full-blown solution
Managed Rapid Revisions - automated conversion from legacy repository; comprehensive tracking; authors use their choice of tools
Formats include PDF, WORD, Blackberry, Palm OS, HTML, market data feeds
Users are non-technical financial analysts
Owner extracts document for conversion; tracking queue is established; changes mode; once approved, document is converted back to the legacy format
http://www.microsoft.com/Resources/Government/mrr.aspx
Handles footnotes
GA - 18 months - transformation product only
http://www.itemfield.com
· Microsoft did exhibit. 
Vikki has been kind enough to share her presentation: http://regions.xplor.org/midatlantic/April2004/Presentations/Itemfield.pdf
and
http://regions.xplor.org/midatlantic/April2004/Presentations/Itemfield.ppt

Comments from Sandy Wright, EDP--
Cheryl Battan, Microsoft Corp., and Vicki Jensen, ItemField, spoke on Managed Rapid Revisons.  This system takes legacy manuals in their original generation software and facilitates conversion, tracking, and auto location.  It is currently being used by some government agencies and Merrill Lynch.

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General Notes about the Region

Kemal Carr
Madison Advisors

Fred Antoun
Antoun Law

Walter Young
Oce

Joel Powers
INSCI Corporation

Skip Henk, EDP
Xplor International

It's NETWORKING Time

Cheryl Battan
Microsoft
AND
Vikki Jensen
Itemfield

Lisa Nell
Solimar Systems

Laurence O'Hagan
Group1 Software

Paul LeTourneur, EDP
AND
Dee Roche, EDP

FRIDAY!

Jesse Wilkins, EDP
Metalinear Media

Jeff Horbinski
US Government Printing Office

Ryan Kiley
Rochester Software Associates

Tom Mackay
ISIS Papyrus

A. Michael Phipps
IBM

Scott Bannor, EDP
PrintSoft Americas

Wrap up and September!

Click Here to see Vikki's
PDF Presentation ( 180 KB) and here to see her Power Point Presentation
(1,339 KB)