Comments on: That can’t be too tough http://www.osellus.com/blogs/2007/10/28/that-cant-be-too-tough/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:14:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: David http://www.osellus.com/blogs/2007/10/28/that-cant-be-too-tough/comment-page-1/#comment-204 David Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:41:55 +0000 http://www.osellus.com/blogs/2007/10/28/that-cant-be-too-tough/#comment-204 Instead of a one-way data transfer from Jazz to Microsoft documents, I think a much more useful exercise would be to extend MS Office to make it Jazz aware. This would allow the Office applications to behave as Jazz clients much like Microsoft and others have done for VSTS. Without Jazz awareness, I feel that these other applications would be limited to reporting functions and be of little use to the project management community. I see this more as an exercise in extending MS Office (or your application of choice) rather than extending Jazz and can understand why IBM would be looking for partners to provide such a solution for their customers. Instead of a one-way data transfer from Jazz to Microsoft documents, I think a much more useful exercise would be to extend MS Office to make it Jazz aware. This would allow the Office applications to behave as Jazz clients much like Microsoft and others have done for VSTS. Without Jazz awareness, I feel that these other applications would be limited to reporting functions and be of little use to the project management community.

I see this more as an exercise in extending MS Office (or your application of choice) rather than extending Jazz and can understand why IBM would be looking for partners to provide such a solution for their customers.

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