SmartGuide provides organizations with the agility to quickly deliver intelligent online services to all their stakeholders while unleashing the full value of corporate IT assets and know-how. Whether you are looking to improve the quality or cost-effectiveness of service delivery, reduce inefficiencies or increase worker productivity, SmartGuide® can help you quickly build self-service applications and maintain them easily. SmartGuide allows you to:

• Convert existing forms into "intelligent" Web forms by breaking them into a series of logical and user-friendly steps;
• Create guided searches that provide users with answers that are entirely relevant to their stated needs;
• Make recommendations, consult and interact with your clients, partners and employees in a highly personalized manner through interactive dialogs;
• Unify access to disparate information and systems to present a single-window view and break free of departmental silos;
• Keep users informed every step of the way as they deal with your organization.

FASTER DEVELOPMENT WITH SMARTGUIDE

• Empower and engage business users to design and configure business applications;
• Build, test and maintain applications easily with a full array of drag-and-drop tools;
• Reach consensus quickly through rapid prototyping;
• Work on the business, presentation and data layers in parallel from day one;
• Re-use components across multiple applications.

KEY BENEFITS

• Easily build online services while leveraging your existing IT assets and corporate know-how;
• Cut development and maintenance time by up to 90%;
• Optimize and enhance user experience;
• Increase user adoption and compliance rates;
• Improve quality and cost-effectiveness of service delivery;
• Seamlessly integrate into any secure environment;
• Deploy in-house or in the Cloud.

• Resource constraints, time-to-market and TCO of user-centric application development and deployment;
• Cost overruns in application development and delivery failure;
• Process requiring continuous application updating and change;
• Self-service portal;
• Enabling applications for the Cloud;
• Intelligent electronic forms;
• Facilitates Web services such as education or training.

• Drag-and-drop tools‒ Easily manage the entire content and business logic of your applications through WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop interfaces;
• Natively supports creating interactive Web applications that adapt dynamically according to users' input;
• Allows automatically building Web applications from PDF forms, XML schemas and WSDL files;
• Auto-documentation‒ Automatically generate documentation of your applications;
• Advanced built-in validations;
• Zero-code Web services‒ Integrate SOAP and REST Web services using simple Web interfaces;
• Facilitates system integration through Web services, extension functions and XML files.