Two months ago I had the pleasure of meeting the driving forces behind a Portugese company called CaveDigital at one of my EMEA workshop tours. We had a good time then and we kept in touch very regularly. CaveDigital has created this very awesome InfoPath / SharePoint integration called the CaveDigital XML Form WebPreviewer Web Part. It addresses a real business need of a lot of companies.
They describe very well on their Web site:
Description:
This SharePoint web part increases the value of your enterprise investments on SharePoint and InfoPath technology by allowing users without InfoPath to view the contents of forms on their web browser.
CaveDigital XML Form WebPreviewer can also be used in .NET web applications development, by being available as a Web User Control. This allows you to extend your investment to other applications, for instance, your Corporate Internet WebSite.
Benefits:
Microsoft Partners, Developers and Resellers: now you have the answer to your clients when they ask you about «users who don't have InfoPath».
Also, as an End-User, imagine you have to review several dozens of forms, and for each one you would have to fire up your InfoPath client application (and wait for it to load). With this web part, you won't need to. Just WebPreview them.
And what about when part of your employees don't have an InfoPath client application available for them to use? They can always WebPreview them.
The tool costs only € 499 per server license. You can enroll in the beta program to work together with them improving and making the tool scalable. This is really good stuff and congratulations Alexandra and Pedro for the hard work you have done the last weeks. See you soon in July :)