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IBM Lotus Forms

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IBM® Lotus® Forms helps to reduce the time, costs, and problems inherent to paper-based forms processes. Instantly available to anyone, at any time, and anywhere, Lotus Forms can help speed business transactions and increase responsiveness with intelligent, easy-to-use dynamic forms that can help reduce or eliminate errors at the point of entry.


Key Capabilities
  • Based on open standards to help lower integration, maintenance, and total costs of ownership
  • Lotus Forms Services Platform provides an extensible framework to facilitate tight integration of forms with IBM middleware as well as a wide range of independent software vendors such as: Oracle, SAP, Siebel and PeopleSoft
  • Create pixel-precise rendition of legacy forms and improve usability of complex forms through guided wizards, pre-populated data, and robust help
  • Enterprise scale performance including: support for pre-loaded templates, on demand page loading and improved IO usage
  • Provides a security-rich, dynamic, and intelligent front-end to business processes and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
  • Offers dynamic, intelligent XML electronic forms that self-modify based on user input, role, and responsibility
  • Delivers flexible deployment options thru Web 2.0 forms that can be used without the cost of deploying and maintaining client software
  • Provides a rich client that allows forms to be accessed and completed by mobile and disconnected users
  • Lotus Forms leverages your existing infrastructure and expertise by deploying on your choice of server architectures - including: AIX, Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, Linux (RedHat and Suse)
  • Supports I-Series operating systems
  • Support for scripted "mashups" enables HTML component re-use and integration
  • Provides advanced data input and validation capability
  • Helps address regulatory compliance issues by creating complete, auditable transaction records that combine form business logic, data and attachments in one security-rich transaction record
  • Helps create accessible applications that comply with Government and industry regulations
  • Helps streamline global business operations with electronic forms in 28 languages
  • Enables high value electronic business transactions by delivering security-rich forms with multiple digital signatures
  • Enables online and easy offline access to electronic forms via the Web with no additional software download or maintenance required
  • Enables complex forms to be completed across multiple user interactions
  • Uses advanced data compression to optimize network and storage usage
  • Offers Rapid Application Development in a productive development environment based on the open source Eclipse Framework
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