IBM Forms

Flexible, scalable eForms to help speed process automation

Many business processes are based on someone filling out a form. But even this simple task can be riddled with errors, inefficiencies and wasted money.

IBM Forms automates forms-based business processes to help improve efficiency, customer service and time to value. With IBM Forms you can:

• Improve efficiency, time to revenue, customer service by automating paper based processes.
• Cut costs by eliminating printing, distribution, processing and storage of paper.
• Reduce transaction times and error rates.
• Get auditable, compliant records.
• Minimize environmental impact and "go green" with electronic forms.

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• Agile web-applications for data collection

• Business process automation

• Compelling, interactive user experience

• Ease of use

• Integration with existing systems

• Industrial-strength security features, performance and scalability

• Anytime, anywhere access via mobile devices

• Easy-to-use, web-driven creation of compelling, data-collection user interface

• Light-weight routing for approvals and notifications

• Integrated relational data repository and light-weight reporting

• CSS based styling

• Provide customers, suppliers and partners with access to key business processes and applications through built-in workflow

• Share information automatically with the appropriate people, systems and applications in your business from a single eForm

• Integrate rapidly with Business Process Management systems like IBM WebSphere Process Server and IBM Filenet P8

• Build great looking web-applications through Web 2.0 user interface and modern widgets and themes

• Access forms applications anytime, anywhere on iOS and Android based devices

• Exploit a user-friendly front end to your business, allowing almost anyone to view, fill, sign, submit and route forms based applications

• Enable non-technical users to create and distribute customized surveys, feedback forms, order forms and more by e-mail and the Internet without IT involvement

• Leverage sample catalog for reusable assets to jump-start your deployments for faster time to value

• Integrate with Enterprise information systems like IBM WebSphere Portal software, WebSphere Process Server, IBM FileNet P8 software and other products from IBM and third-party providers

• Ability to invoke, integrate via REST API

• Create forms based applications in 28 languages on a broad range of platforms and operating systems

• Embed standards based digital signatures for audit and compliance

• Achieve advanced scalability and performance for your solution by running IBM Forms Server software on a 64bit operating system or on Linux operating system for the IBM System z platform