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FormRouter Offers PDF-to-Lotus Notes Support

Category IBM/Lotus
From PDFZone.com: FormRouter Offers PDF-to-Lotus Notes Support

FormRouter announced September that it added Lotus Notes support to its service, which potentially opens up the company's services to 110 million new customers.

While the type of data FormRouter collects for its customers through PDF forms already flows well within Lotus Notes environments without need for Acrobat or PDF, Healy says IBM approached FormRouter to develop the PDF piece for companies to interact with their customers and field workers outside firewalls.

"The majority of Lotus Notes databases are behind firewalls in a lot of large companies, and there is a great need to pull forms submitted online from outside the firewall into Lotus Notes and do workflow on those forms," Healy says. "The ideal industries are going to be financial industries—insurance, mortgage financing, etc."

Nice to see another third-party vendor understand the untapped market of Notes shops out there...

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Gravatar Image1 - Tom,
putting the platform aside, why would it be useful / efficient to have PDF forms ? Isn't it hard to add data to such a form other than by printing, writing and faxing / scanning it back into a workflow ?

Gravatar Image2 - I think what they're saying is that they will host the front end data collection for you using PDF forms (that you can fill out online), and then pass the data back to you in a Notes format that you can then use to run your workflow processes built on the Notes platform. In many ways, it seems that a regular web page would accomplish as much, but I'm sure Adobe has built in some features to PDF forms that make it better/different than a straight web page...

Gravatar Image3 - That was exactly what we were saying. Unfortunately, we were only able to attract a handful of customers (which are still really happy using our product) and now we feel that Lotus Forms Turbo is encroaching on our core product and this piece.

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