Monday, September 20, 2010

Electronic forms

With the help of growing technologies, today’s business organizations are also trying to get smarter to cope up with the tough competition in the corporate world in order to survive, thereby making certain things very obsolete. One of such things is the paper work as the trend being followed in the industry of today is to go paperless, which no doubt is being adopted by numerous firms, who are following the trend. Electronic forms, today has become a modern and a faster way to do business thereby ensuring the most optimum use of all the available resources in the industry.

Initially, development of electronic business forms was considered as a relatively tougher job to do, but nowadays same can be done easily with the help of Acrobat 9. These forms can prove to be beneficial for a business house in numerous ways. Also, hiring an expert in electronic forms can prove like a golden touch to any business firm in order to experience the difference.

The use of Acrobat 9 software in the production of electronic forms make it the most suitable for everyone to use, fill and hence save. With the help of this software, a person can easily track his submitted form and get to know all the details that he requires.

Here below mentioned are some advantages of using Acrobat 9 software for the production of electronic forms:

1. With the help of this software, an electronic form can be produced by anyone without any need for assistance. Hence, IT professional or a web designer is out of question to serve the same purpose.
2. It gives an exact look of existing paper forms to the produced electronic forms.
3. The software adds attractive text fields, check boxes, and drop-down menus to the electronic form.
4. The software designs the form in such a manner that anyone can easily fill in and save the PDF forms.
5. It enables a person to easily track the status of forms whenever required.



With the help of Acrobat 9, it has become easier to create electronic expense reports, invoices, purchase orders, request forms, registration forms, surveys and questionnaires for any business organization.
As we know that electronic forms for every business firm vary, the reason for same depends upon the degree of interactivity, intelligence, etc.

Electronic forms are basically of 6 types:

Level 1: Static Electronic forms - useful for electronic distribution purpose
Level 2: Editable electronic forms - useful for typing + Level 1 purpose
Level 3: Fillable electronic forms - used to form widgets + Level 2 purpose
Level 4: Validating electronic forms – useful for feedback based on internal rules + Level 3 purposes
Level 5: Smart electronic forms - used to form changes based on internal rules + Level 4 purposes
Level 6: Connected electronic forms - useful to provide connectivity + Level 5 purposes

This division and classification into certain levels has been done to make people understand electronic forms in a better and easy way.

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