Making web forms easy with InfoPath and "InfoView"

re: Making web forms easy with InfoPath and "InfoView"

Jonathan Roberts — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 23:46:00 GMT

And there is an article on ASPToday (its self a rare event) on how to do this by maninpulating the XSN files and altering the page response.

re: Making web forms easy with InfoPath and "InfoView"

ray — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 03:31:00 GMT

Please tell the CEO of Unique World that they might get a lot more business if they do not try to impede potential customers by requiring customer data just to see a demo.

They might think that they are getting customer demographics to be used to contact customers later, but all it does is make people leave the website after 10 seconds.

If their product is good enough, customers will contact them!

re: Making web forms easy with InfoPath and "InfoView"

CD — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:08:00 GMT

Thanks Ray - this is a good suggestion.
We might try this for a while and see what people say.

Pls use these login details:

Username = InfoView
Password = wentworth

I look forward to your feedback.
Cheers,
Christophe

GM - Unique World Software (and ex-Microsoftee working with Cameron)

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re: Making web forms easy with InfoPath and "InfoView"

ray — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:38:00 GMT

Hi Christophe

Thanks for supplying the login details :)

I've tested the demo forms and it looks really good.

I'll try to test the InfoPath form upload at a later stage.

One small bug - your two demo forms do not work in in Mozilla Firefox 0.8 - I haven't had a chance to look at the HTML yet, so can't say what the problem is.

Good luck with this product - it's what a lot of InfoPath customers have been requesting, even though it seems to be priced at a level that most customers would balk at.

ray

re: Making web forms easy with InfoPath and "InfoView"

CD — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:20:00 GMT

Thanks Ray.
I am pretty sure that we have not tested with other browsers than IE5.5 and above...so not sure about Mozilla.

Re: pricing level
We are still refining it based on customers' feedback. What would you suggest?

Thanks,
Christophe

re: Making web forms easy with InfoPath and "InfoView"

ray — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 03:13:00 GMT

Hi Christophe

I think a per CPU pricing is good for enterprise businesses with hundreds of forms and thousands of Internet customers.

However, for small to medium businesses who can really use this product, it would be impossible to justify the cost. For example, I have a client who is an independent motorcycle insurance broker who would really be able to use this product, but they cannot spend that much for the few hundreds of clients they have.

I realise it is difficult to impose something like this, but it may be worthwhile looking at setting limits on the number of forms or the number of unique users for smaller businesses.

Also, I think you are missing out on the Intranet segment where companies cannot deploy InfoPath to every client, but would still like to deploy the InfoPath functionality to individual users. In this case, a per named user pricing model might be better.

This will allow companies to roll out Office System 2003 (with InfoPath) to selected users, while still allowing users who cannot be upgraded the opportunity to use InfoPath functionality. Pricing for the per user licenses would have to be comparable or lower than the cost of rolling out InfoPath to all users (this would be very difficult to determine).

I'm sure that you must have looked at comparable solutions (Adobe Enterprise Solutions, etc) and you are probably priced on a par with the competition, but you could be creating a whole new market at a different price-point.

Hope this helps.

Ray

re: Making web forms easy with InfoPath and "InfoView"

CD — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:57:00 GMT

Thanks Ray.
If you want let's continue this discussion via email.
Mine is cdumonet@uniqueworldsoftware.com.

Cheers,
Christophe

re: Making web forms easy with InfoPath and "InfoView"

CD — Sun, 09 May 2004 06:26:00 GMT

We decided to drop the price of InfoView - the ideal web publishing companion product to InfoPath.

New pricing is per server (not per CPU) and starts at US$7K (down from US$12K).

Cheers,
CD