IBM Lotus Forms 3.5 enables line-of-business (LOB) users as well as IT in enterprise, to easily automate forms-based processes.
Benefits
- Streamlined business processes within the firewall and beyond
- Delivers a security rich, easy-to-use front end for business process automation that can be accessed both inside and outside an organization without additional software download
- Integrates with market-leading Business Process Management, such as WebSphere® Process Server and Filenet, to provide end-to-end process automation
- Exceptional ease of use
- New browser-based, out-of-the-box forms solution enables users of all skill levels to design, view, and send forms and analyze results, quickly and easily, without IT involvement
- Eclipse Designer enables beginners as well as IT to create sophisticated forms through an Eclipse-based toolkit
- New eForms sample catalog helps quickly demonstrate forms return on investment and provides an easy starting point for users of all skill levels
- Industrial strength security and scalability
- Advanced, zero footprint digital signing and authentication with standards such as XMLDsig helps organizations to address security and compliance concerns
- Scalable eForms solution powers the world's largest eForms implementation with 1.5M users and now provides easy entry point for smaller organizations
- Accelerated data integration
- Integrates with market-leading Business Process Management, such as WebSphere Process Server and Filenet, to provide end-to-end process automation
- Open standards-based flexibility
- Based on open standards such as XForms and XML, Lotus Forms provides flexibility and helps organizations reuse data and integrate with service oriented architectures.
- Extended support
- Create eForms in 28 languages on a broad range of platforms and operating systems including IBM System i® and Microsoft® Windows® Vista
This browser-based out-of-the-box forms capability is also available as a standalone offering, IBM Lotus Forms Turbo.
Deployment server feature of Lotus Forms server will be withdrawn in Lotus Forms 3.5. PDF sheet on Lotus Forms 3.5.
