Order Form for internal IT department

[Alex]

Hello,

as a member of the internal IT department I am confronted with the following
scenario:

An employee requests something from the internal IT department (eg. pair of
speakers, bigger monitor, software, printer, ...). For that he needs to get
approval from his boss or if it is quite a large amount of money from the
supervisors supervisor.
After the approval, the request is forwarded to the IT department who then
takes the necessary steps.

This is currently done with a excel sheet that people can download from our
sharepoint portal server using the approved - print it out - fill it out -
pass the paper on - method.
I would like to do exactly that using infopath forms. After putting some
thought to it and doing some research on the net, this is what I have so far:

I need

A Webservice to get the necessary information from AD (username, supervisor),
A data source that contains the maximum amount that the supervisor can approve

Create A form containing the necessary fields, user roles and mail
notifications, publish that to the portal library, and voila, we're done.

Since I am completely new to the whole infopath thing, could you please be
so kind and give me some feedback on the whole issue! Any big things I
overlooked?

Big Thanks in advance!
Sincerely
Alex

 

[vtasparagus]

Seems like you have right idea. Using web services to get data instead
of directly connecting to a DB datasource is good.

 

[Alex]

Thanks for your response,

i figured that the webservice really makes it easier to roll out forms, and
could be used for future forms as well....

Regards,
Alex