Adobe Form Server is an intelligent data capture product that enables governments and corporations to post their forms on the Web. It creates and publishes Adobe Portable Document (PDF) or Web-based forms for delivery to any browser running on any device — from PCs to handheld and wireless devices — without downloads or plug-ins.

Form Server offers numerous time- and money-saving advantages. Your end users can effectively participate in day-to-day business processes anywhere and anytime they want to do business. As your users complete a form, Form Server can verify the accuracy of the data, validate and calculate it, send a confirmation, and submit the data to core business processes — enabling you to provide speedier customer service and obtain mission-critical data on the fly. Adobe Form Server and Adobe Workflow Server together deliver a complete business process automation solution.

Form Server allows your end users not only to fill out a form offline, but also to save the data and the form template for later completion. The form also performs automatic behind-the-scenes intelligence such as validations and calculations that you would only expect to be available online. Once reconnected, data can then be submitted.

Organisations that want to secure transactions involving confidential or sensitive information can also use Form Server with digital signature integration — no plug-in or download is required to sign the forms.

How it works

Web forms are created using Adobe Form Designer, a point-and-click graphical (WYSIWYG) design application that creates intelligent XML templates, which provides you with a simple way to generate and maintain electronic forms without involving third-party tools. Within Form Designer, the form previewer tool enables designers to see in real time how their forms will appear in different browsers. Designers simply select the desired preview format and the form appears immediately as it would in the selected browser. Finally, the publisher tool eases form deployment to your Web server. Form Server provides the centralised platform and scalability required to deploy Web forms to all of your end users regardless of their Web environment. It also includes the tools necessary to easily set up and deploy Web forms without programming, as well as a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent for monitoring performance and remotely managing forms.

Form Server highlights

• Form Server is based on open, vendor-independent XML standards.
  
• Create electronic forms quickly and easily from scratch with Form Designer, or by taking advantage of the many included sample forms and Web applications.
  
• Simplify the presentation of electronic forms to your end users by providing an online replica of your existing form or a multipage data capture solution.
  
• Convert a single form template to various versions of HTML and Java for easy public access regardless of browser type or device.
  
• Eliminate the need for downloads or plug-ins, saving your customers time, money, and maintenance headaches.
  
• Convert form and data into Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) to create a document of record.
  
• Integrate data to your database with zero-programming binding fields database table.
  
• Extend the power of your existing systems with seamless application integration.
  
• Scale your solution to accommodate increased Web traffic and/or additional Web servers.
  
• Take advantage of integration with Adobe Workflow Server and Adobe Document Server.
  
• Give equal access to your forms with Accessible HTML — a unique transformation that enables the layout of an electronic form to change from its typical left to right to a vertical column, making it easy for any user to navigate and complete forms.

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