CMT (http://www.cm-tech.com.hk) is a Hong Kong based IT solution company. Their flag-ship product is the e-Biz Form application. The major benefit of adopting e-Biz Form solution is that it simplifies the processing of electronic forms via an innovative method: no mass program development. Through the e-Biz form Designer, any user can scan and convert a hard-copied form to an electronic form on the fly. The collected data of the e-Biz form can be saved easily into database.

Next Office is a versatile office suite. Comparable to MS Office, Next Office has 4 core components that satisfy the needs of most office-suite users: Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation and Drawing. Next Office can easily open and save in Microsoft file formats. So far, Next Office has the best inter-operability with MS Office files. Besides, Next Office supports XML open file format which is emerging as the new standard worldwide. Next Office 8.1 Professional Edition has features such as English and Chinese Text-to-Speech, Voice enabled dictionaries, Translation between Traditional and Simplified Chinese, PDF Writer, xp look-and-feel, Switchable user interface among English, Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional...

The integrated solution of Next Office and e-Biz Form facilitate a SME company to go for this affordable electronic form solution. A SME can use the e-Biz Form designer to convert printed copies to electronic form copies, and then can save the collected data in MySQL database and use Next Office as database front-end to prepare ad-hoc and/or standard reports. The cost saving is significant.

Next Office's Product Director, Mr. Wai-ting Li said: “The coming release of Next Office 8.1 Professional version will be bundling CMT's e-Biz Form Filler and Designer trial version. Users can through the e-Biz Form installed by Next Office 8.1 to submit their registration via e-Mail. In future, Next Office's strategy is to form strategic alliances with various IT solution providers by using Next Office 8.1 as the core component. The world's leading IT company HP has already selected Next Office as the office-suite bundle with all their home PCs in Hong Kong, indicating that Next Office 8.1 has reached the international quality standard and proving that Next Office 8.1 has out-performed all competitors in functionality and user-friendliness."

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