A Model for Office Document Processing and Collaboration in Cloud

摘要

Office software suite is one of the most widely used and well developed applications. The suite includes word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and so on. With recent developments of high-speed network and distributed computing technologies, some office applications such as document processing, have turned web-based (e.g., Microsoft Office WAC) and even cloud-based (e.g., Google Docs). The initial and obvious benefits of moving office applications into the cloud for small and medium sized businesses are cost savings in the purchase, maintenance and upgrades on both software and hardware. But the more significant advantage of doing so is to enable users of real-time collaborative editing on a shared cloud-based document. We believe moving office applications into cloud is an inevitable trend in the development of office applications. A novel, efficient cloud-based document processing model: DPC is proposed in this paper. Detailed description and functionality of this model are first introduced. We then instantiate the model using a document based on ISO 29500 [1]. Finally, we also discuss security, reliability and synchronization issues.