“InfoPath is dead”
Ok we all kind of guessed this was coming, but Microsoft officially announced today that InfoPath is one dead puppy. In their words “This means that InfoPath 2013 is the last release of the desktop client, and InfoPath Forms Services in SharePoint Server 2013 is the last release of InfoPath Forms Services“.
So, what are you plans now ? If you are looking for a new forms solution, will you go InfoPath 2013, wait for the next “Forms Solution” from MS, or go with something else?
Anyway, here’s their full article :Â http://blogs.office.com/2014/01/31/update-on-infopath-and-sharepoint-forms/
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Nowadays forms are less and less used as a separate entities. Usually they’re combined with workflows to deliver fully functional business applications. Hence if you’re looking for something that would be suitable for a long-term strategy, I’d look into BPM-like solutions that offer both forms and workflows (within SharePoint of course).
It’s kind of a shame in many cases you have to buy them separately and pay twice. There are rare examples when both workflows and forms are combined (e.g. WEBCON BPS), wish there was more.
