Good stuff! This is something that I've been looking forward to. At least, we can help our government agencies and statutory boards in Singapore who are interested to automate or lessen their load and pain in terms of e-forms processing.

OBA RAP for E-Forms processing in the Public Sector

The OBA Reference Application Pack for E-forms processing in the public sector was released on MSDN. Work on this RAP commenced in May 2007 and culminated with this release to the web.

This RAP contains a reference solution architecture and solution that illustrate how an OBA (Office Business Application) can be built to automate and optimize forms processing in a Public Sector organization. The reference solution framework show cased in the RAP is generic and can be adapted to enable end-to-end processing of a number of forms in the public sector

Products/Technologies highlighted in this RAP: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, InfoPath 2007 and InfoPath Forms Services, Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft Outlook 2007

Resources

MSDN page for the OBA http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb643796.aspx

Artifacts of this OBA RAP (Links to all artifacts are listed on the RAP’s MSDN page):

- A TDM/Solution Architecture slide deck (with detailed notes) & voice over presentation

- A BDM slide deck (with detailed notes) & voice over presentation

- A PPT click through demo

“Coming Soon” Artifacts of this OBA RAP for Health Plans:

- An MSDN Virtual Lab to enable exploring the RAP online – ETA End July 2007

- A video presentation of the end-to-end scenarios – ETA 7/6

- Reference application VPC image with hands on lab document (downloadable by registering in the OBA RAP Connect Program) – ETA 7/6