Overview
IBM® FileNet® eForms helps you design, manage and process electronic forms for enterprise content management.
It increases productivity by minimizing the amount of time spent creating and managing business processes.
- Provides an intuitive and powerful design environment with a single point-and-click user interface for enterprise eForms design without requiring code or back-end scripts
- Creates highly intelligent, high fidelity eForms that become the user interface to business processes so that they can be created, launched, received and processed quickly and efficiently
- Reduces the amount of data users enter into forms by connecting to existing data sources
- Offers browser-based thin-client eForms
FileNet eForms technology and business benefits.
- Comprehensive Forms Management Support: Tightly integrated with IBM FileNet Business Process Manager and IBM FileNet Content Manager, it lets you take advantage of advanced versioning, check-in/check-out, search and tracking of forms. Templates and data can be stored separately for efficient use of your system storage capacity. Both FileNet eForms and Lotus® Forms integrate natively with FileNet BPM. Learn more (PDF, 37KB).
- Electronic Audit Trail: Your eForms can be routed, saved and tracked as they proceed through the business process. Accurate PDF copies can be generated at any stage for document storage or printing.
- Security: Full integration with IBM FileNet P8 authentication services ensures that forms are only accessed by authorized users.
- Version Control: All users have access to the most current and approved forms with complete and comprehensive version control and library services when combined with IBM FileNet Content Manager.
- Database Connectivity: You can easily configure database lookups and submissions using such standards as HTTP and JDBC.
- XML Documents: Online eForms and form data are stored in XML format, promoting easy data exchange with your other business applications, wide accessibility and distribution with on-demand rendering in HTML, PDF or ODBC.
- Powerful Customization Options: Your solution authors can customize the eForm user interface, ensuring that it is as intuitive as possible. Advanced authors can even use eForm client-side JavaScript and server-side Java™ APIs for additional customization and integration possibilities.
