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Our Mission

NewFormat's mission is to provide cost effective solutions based on open interoperability standards that are freely available and implementable
- thereby we contribute to decrease our customers' costs for ICT.

Background - Inaccessible information is everywhere and in any type of enterprise:
OSUR.EU highlights research report from University of Skövde:
"Swedish public organisations lack policies on how to maintain electronic documents,
and fail to understand the importance of open standards".

For information on the importance and acceptance of open document formats for office productivity software suites,
we recommend the keynote by European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda, Mrs Neelie Kroes,
at OpenForum Europe Summit2010,
"How to get more interoperability in Europe"

and this article
"OpenDocument Format: The Standard for Office Documents",
IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 13, No. 2, March-April 2009

and visits to
Wikipedia - Open format , openformats.org , ODF Alliance , OpenDocument XML.org

A switch to open standards lower costs:
Make the ISO standardized file format OpenDocument Format (ODF) to the standard in your enterprise,
- switch the standard file format in your installations of Microsoft Office to ODF. This is how you do it:
"Taking Control of Your Documents", by Rob Weir (English, pdf)
Rob Weir's blog provides more useful information.