Features
Cut the Cost of Software
Everyone's looking for ways to save money in education by cutting unnecessary infrastructure costs. StarSuite 8 for Educational Institutions lets you eliminate the high cost of office productivity suite software for every user. It's free. You get the full stack of office applications at no cost.
Remain Productive
StarSuite 8 software delivers full-powered, no-compromise word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database capabilities on the operating system of your choice. StarSuite-based open source software for the Apple Macintosh is now available from openoffice.org and NeoOffice/J.
Improved Microsoft Interoperability
Your transition from Microsoft Office documents, and continued interoperability with them, is clean and simple. You just click to format Microsoft Office documents as StarSuite 8 documents, and vice versa. The process is easy for your users and invisible to Microsoft users.
Accessibility
Operating system accessibility features, such as a screen magnifier, screen reader, and onscreen keyboard help, are available to StarSuite 8 users.
OASIS Open Document Format
StarSuite documents and templates are saved in the new OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured information Standards) OpenDocument format, the international standard for office software. That gives you the broadest compatibility with documents from students, other schools around the globe, and research organizations that also use the popular OASIS XML file format.
StarSuite 8 offers XForms support, enabling higher levels of interoperability with other vendors who also support this standard. StarSuite 8 software is able to create and edit XForms based on the OpenDocument format. XForms allow you to define dependencies between form controls and calculations without programming or writing macros.
XML Input/Output Filters
The XML filter imports and exports any XML file in StarSuite. The filter uses the standardized XSL transformation templates for the XML transformation. XSL Templates are a standard of the W3C organization.
PDF Export Included FREE
How much could you save per user by eliminating the cost of a PDF program? Probably more than the cost of StarSuite 8. Full PDF export functionality is built in to StarSuite 8 software at no extra cost.
An Easy-to-use Database Tool
If your institution does research, database access is a must have. You get it with the StarSuite database tool, Base. It has helpful wizards that show users, with no formal database training, to access data and create forms, reports, queries, tables, views, and relations.
