New File Standard Is a Perfect Fit for Fashion House

Overview

Paul Smith is one of the United Kingdom's most respected and commercially successful fashion houses, with retail stores as far afield as Tokyo, Paris and New York. At the beginning of 2007, Bingham started researching the likely future of file standards, including a beta trial of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, which uses the Ecma Office Open XML specification. A full deployment of the 2007 Office system to all employees followed in August the same year and the company saw immediate benefits. Built-in ZIP compression in the new Open XML Formats, for instance, makes files smaller.