Electronic Forms

Nearly everyone needs electronic forms - either converting existing paper forms into electronic formats, moving your business processes from manual to an online environment, or you’re just getting started and you need to use the most up to date processes available.

Some of the problems you face are:

• Paper is easy to use, to distribute, to annotate, sign and return. You need electronic forms to be the same.

• Employees, vendors, customers, etc. are accustomed to your existing forms. New forms and processes may be confusing. Therefore, electronic forms need to look and act like the forms you already use.

• If you plan to distribute forms, recipients need to be able to open and use them.

• Data entered into forms should be easy to link to lots of different data sources. Why re-enter data when you’ve already got it in a computer?

• Documents like Adobe pdf’s and Word files may accept data easily, but tying them to real databases (not txt files) isn’t easy at all!

• Designing e-forms takes time and can be expensive.

• Most E-forms aren’t portable – you can’t access more than one data source at a time, and you can’t change databases easily.

Direct Focus Software’s DFSEforms solutions make it easy to create…

• Full web-enabled and Windows ready forms.

• Forms that can be exported to Adobe, Word, or Excel format, or saved as a DFSEforms documents.

• Multiple page designs of a single form.

• E-forms that simultaneously communicate with multiple tables among different databases (including different types of databases) to both retrieve and update.

• Interactive auto fill-in and option lists within data fields with dynamic retrieval of list options from database tables.

• Built in data verification and formatting.

• Excellent version controls; changes to form templates will not affect old forms created and stored under previous versions of the form templates.

• Security at the form level with configuration done at runtime after the product is delivered to the customer. Each form can be configured to require access authorization with users granted different levels of authorization according to their various user roles.

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Other electronic forms vendors sell form tools that allow you to design an electronic document, which is okay, but… If you need to save the data in the fields into a database, so you can store it, retrieve it, sort it, summarize it, analyze it - then you still have to tie each field in the form to a database, usually using complex custom programming.

E-forms shouldn’t be just stand-alone documents. You need them to work as pluggable modules in an integrated framework that also offers a powerful backend for

• data access and transformation,

• business logic,

• workflow (menu’s and processing) and

• advanced Business Intelligence reporting.

So if you need a little now, and more later – we’re for you.

It’s simple. Direct Focus Software E-forms are better, are delivered faster, and come at an overall lower cost. With our technology, we deliver forms with more features, with faster turnaround than using other tools or custom programming, and at a lower cost for both the initial development and ongoing maintenance.

For a hands-on experience of what you could have with a Direct Focus Software solution, see our Direct Focus Software interactive BI Demo. Then, let us know your custom requirements.

Email us your requirements at DFSWmail@gmail.com or call us at 888-626-DFSW. Once we have them, we can usually produce a working proof of concept demo in two weeks or less.

Because we’re directly focused on your business.