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Content Management
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Click here for the online demo Formatta provides all of the tools and functionality required to meet the ever increasing demands of the Information Age for forms design, automation and data collection. Formatta's product suite consists of two end-user applications: Formatta Designer for designing electronic forms and Formatta Filler for filling out these forms. Filler is freely available on Formatta's website and other partner sites. In concert with Designer and Filler, Formatta E-Forms Manager and Formatta Server allow a business to automate every facet of form processing. Formatta Server works with your existing database and website for XML output, imaging, pre-filling forms, encryption and much more. With Formatta Filler and freely distributable portable form files (PFF), now anyone can fill out forms, save, route, print, email, post to a website or use on a local area network. As forms are filled, they can be automatically validated by the form itself, eliminating incorrect entries and improving the accuracy of data collection. Formatta Components Formatta Filler Formatta Filler is a free, fully functional end user application for the PC and Mac® that allows a user to manipulate an electronic form the same as a paper form but with all the advantages that come with technology. Formatta Filler allows end-users to view, save, encrypt, sign, and route e-forms and their attachments.
Forms viewed in Filler have the look and feel of paper forms. Formatta Filler is intuitive, simple to use, and is just a 1 MB application. Formatta Designer Formatta Designer, a what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) form design product, is easy to use and allows for quick conversion of paper forms into e-forms. Formatta e-forms can be designed from scratch or from existing forms. Paper forms can be scanned and imported into Designer. PDF forms can be directly imported into Designer. Having the familiar look of a Windows application, Formatta Designer contains all the features you expect in a form design product: Bubble tips, action buttons, check boxes, drop down menus, edit boxes, text boxes, etc.
Formatta E-Forms Manager Introducing Formatta E-Forms Manager, a breakthrough solution that provides the most cost-effective way to publish, process and securely manage electronic forms (e-forms). Designed for organizations that want to avoid the complexities of programming web pages or writing custom scripts for processing secure e-forms, Formatta E-Forms Manager provides the key features, functionality and ease-of-use that you have been searching for in an e-forms management solution. Formatta E-Forms Manager is easy to implement and budget friendly. A quick installation process, an integrated web server and database, and the included form templates get you up and running right away. You can actually be using the system on day one, and best of all, there are no additional per user or form-based licensing costs.
Formatta Server Formatta Server is the primary integration point with an organization's systems. It allows automatic processing along with server-side integration of electronic form data with existing databases and applications. Forms may be distributed by posting them on an Internet or intranet site, so that users may download and save them, fill them out using Formatta Filler, and submit them to an application environment that runs Formatta Server for processing. The Formatta Server APIs Formatta Server consists of a set of easy-to-use Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that allow programmatic access to the functionality and data contained in Formatta forms. These robust APIs allow the automation of every facet of form processing. They are available as COM components to allow integration of Formatta Server with ASP pages or other scripting languages, as C++ libraries, or as Java APIs, allowing easy integration with many servlet engines, application servers, and web portals such as BEA, IBM WebSphere, BroadVision, etc. Database and Application Integration With the employment of JDBC, ODBC, ADO, XML and other standards, connectivity between a Formatta Server environment and numerous types of data sources and repositories is enabled. This allows easy integration between Formatta forms and information systems such as Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, and many more. Form data, extracted by the server into XML, can be transformed into any custom format using XSLT, and easily made available to web services and other application interfaces that utilize XML technology. Formatta Server, in addition to allowing the extraction and processing data from forms it receives, always makes available a copy of the form itself, so that it can be stored on a file system or placed into a database. This is very useful in cases where an exact copy of a form filled out by a user is required. The most common means of Formatta forms integration with applications and databases involves the use of a Formatta Server configuration whereby it receives a form that has been submitted to an HTTP server hosting a web application or portal, extracts the data from the form into an XML document, processes the data, and updates a database. Security In any scenario in which a form is submitted over the Internet or an intranet to Formatta Server, the form data is automatically encrypted using 128-bit encryption when it is passed between the Formatta Filler client and the server. Once received and authenticated by Server, it can be decrypted for processing. Formatta Server may be easily integrated with any custom or standard user database or security system (such as LDAP) in order to enforce user authentication upon form submission. Platform Support Formatta Server runs on multiple operating systems. Supported platforms include: (1) Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003, .NET, (2) Solaris, AIX, and other UNIX variants, (3) Linux.
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