IBM Workplace Forms helps to reduce the time, costs, and problems inherent to paper-based forms processes. It unleashes information trapped in paper, making it instantly available to anyone, at any time, and anywhere - helping speed business transactions and increase responsiveness. It builds intelligent, easy-to-use dynamic forms that reduce or eliminate errors at the point of entry, reducing staff requirements and expensive exception processing. Workplace Forms aids in streamlining global business operations, breaking down language barriers and helping to reduce the cost of integrating information to business resources. And it enables efficient and productive development of forms-based processes, supporting team development and reuse of business components used across forms applications.
- Accelerate business transactions - Makes eForms available to end-users around the globe - on their schedules, in their native language - eliminating physical transport and reducing response time. Complex authorization processes are simplified with digital signatures that can be used to sign sections, pages, or entire forms.
- Cultivate innovation - Embraces XML for form data representation in an open, structured, and transportable format, making it instantly available and easier to aggregate.
- Grow customer loyalty and revenue potential - Help simplify eForm usability with guided wizards and pre-populated data helping significantly reduce end user time to complete forms. Pixel-precise eForms may be completed online or offline for increased end-user flexibility.
- Refocus staff - Creates forms with custom business rules that validate form input at the point of entry, eliminating the need for back office error checking and freeing staff to work on more productive business tasks.
- Drive down operations costs - Paper and physical storage costs, as well as ground or air transportation costs of forms can be eliminated.
- More cost-effectively adhere to regulated processes - Helps simplifying the reporting of business data for compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA. Digital signing that detects tampering helps ensure validity of business data.
- IBM Workplace Forms Viewer is a feature-rich desktop application used to view, fill, sign, submit, and route e-forms, and is able to function on the desktop or within a browser. It enables full connectivity with real-time integration using Web Services. The open standards framework of IBM Workplace Forms enables Workplace Forms Viewer to operate in portal or stand-alone environments, in on-line or off-line modes, and as a plug-in for thin or rich-client browsers.
- IBM Workplace Forms Designer is an easy-to-use WYSIWYG e-form design environment that supports the drag-and-drop creation of precision forms with an open and accessible, XML-schema-derived data model. IBM Workplace Forms Designer leverages open standards to deliver advanced forms-based business process automation solutions that integrate seamlessly across lines of business applications and IT infrastructure.
- IBM Workplace Forms Server enables the creation and delivery of XML forms applications. It provides a common, open interface to enable integration of e-forms data with server-side applications using industry-standard XML schemas. IBM Workplace Forms Server also delivers a true zero-footprint solution, providing e-forms to external users quickly and efficiently within a browser without requiring additional downloads or plug-ins. IBM Workplace Forms Server provides a low administration solution for data-capture requirements while supporting precise viewing and printing, automated validation, and the security and compliance capabilities of XML e-forms.
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