The expected benefits of ODF depend however in a large way from the strengtening of development infrastructures and entities able to use the format and innovate on it.

The toolkits available today for ODF are somewhat limited to a traditional scope of office applications and tend to lag behind in the following areas:

• entreprise needs (business intelligence, document management...)
• use cases (highly collaborative environments, nomadic uses, SOA, REST...)
• standard's specification (implementation scope and features' span)