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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.

Open standards prevents vendor lock-in.
We migrate your important business information to
open document formats:

MS Office Document Formats vs OpenDocument Format - Picture

The Information Challenge - Inaccessible information is everywhere and in any type of enterprise:

OSUR.EU highlights research reports from University of Skövde:
"2011-11-29: A standard is open when implemented in open source."

"2011-04-19: Swedish municipalities fail strategy for electronic document formats."

"2010-06-15: 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"

also highlighted by Swedish media
Upphandling24, 2010-07-13 - "Omfamna de öppna alternativen (by Per Eriksson)"

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

and visit
Wikipedia on File format
OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument)
Wikipedia on Open format
OpenDocument Format.org
openformats.org
ODF Alliance
OpenDocument XML.org
Wikipedia on PDF/A

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.

Open and standardized APIs, document and data formats
- European foundations for successful deployment of cloud based computing services.
Anförande av Neelie Kroes, EU-kommissionär för EUs digitala agenda,
vid World Economic Forum 2011,
"Towards a European Cloud Computing Strategy"

Join Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG)
The PASIG is open to institutions and commercial organizations interested in
working, learning and sharing practical experiences, successes, pain points, and
potential topics for more collaboration on computing solutions for preservation and archiving.