The new Application Experience Designer lets you quickly and easily build web applications for data collection. With nothing more than a browser, users can create sophisticated HTML/JavaScript applications that guide them through the steps involved in the data collection process.
The IBM Forms design environment provides a simple and straightforward point-and-click user interface for building the application, eliminating the need to write code. All application and data definitions are captured automatically as part of the design process and stored for later use in the production environment. This approach allows for rapid application development with minimal technical skills.
Solutions designed with the new Application Experience Designer are agile and easily changed to accommodate changing business requirements. They are also extensible and easily integrated with existing systems like business process management, data bases and other applications.
Benefits of IBM Forms Application Experience Designer include:
- Agile, Easy to Use: Allows businesses to respond without expensive, time-consuming development cycles
- 100% Standards-Based: Lowers TCO and leverages common IT skills
- High Performance: Meets the needs of today's customer, partner, and citizen facing deployments
- Compelling User Experience: Leverages best-of-breed, Web 2.0 technologies (CSS, Dojo, JavaScript)
- Integrates Easily: Complements SOA, BPM and other line-of business systems
Q&A
Q. Do I need to have IBM Forms (formerly Lotus Forms) to beta test this new feature?
A. No you do not need to have IBM Forms. This feature beta has been designed to be used independent from IBM Forms and can be installed on its own.
Q. What new applications can I address with the IBM Forms Application Experience Designer?
A. The new feature complements the traditional IBM Forms document centric architecture by letting you build robust, highly-scalable data-centric web applications.
Q. How will the new feature be made available?
A. Current plans are for the IBM Forms Application Experience Designer to be introduced as part of IBM Forms in 2011.
Q. What skills do I need to be able to build applications with IBM Forms Application Experience Designer?
A. A basic understand of web applications, is all that is needed. Building applications is entirely point-and-click inside of a browser.
Q. How sophisticated can the applications be?
A. Users can build comprehensive, high-performing, rich client application experiences that include workflow and integration with other systems.
