Business Process The Old Days With InfoPath       Forms Automation Think of all the forms your enterprise manages: HR, activity tracking, enrollment, health care, customer/vendor management, etc. We complete these so that someone else can take the data, check, correct and enter it into one or more applications or data-stores. Paper based forms commit us to lost hours of cumbersome hands on re-entry, filing, searching or retrieval of relevant data. It’s the proverbial paper-chase. An electronic replica of familiar forms can be made “smart.” Smart forms can dynamically load, retrieve, validate, share, process and distribute data one time. Forms can store conditional formatting immediately alerting the user of errors, or how data relates to critical business criteria. Recapture hundreds of hours of your staff's  productivity. Business Process Automation When all the “paperwork” is complete, other processes can start. Validation, correction, distribution, notification and the approval process to name a few. Bottlenecks are either created or held up by these processes. Downstream processes (not to mention customers, decisions and employees) must wait until “paperwork” and its relevant data are available. Processes move at the speed of their slowest bottleneck. Submitting a form can trigger alerts, emails, or other processes automatically. Redundant error prone processing and reentering of data in multiple locations is eliminated. InfoPath distributes data to all of its logical destinations. Relevant processes occur simultaneously and bottlenecks are eliminated. Data Access & Sharing Forms get re-entered into a database on a batch basis hours or days after the fact. Decisions, analysis and reporting is post time typically telling us what happened last month, last week or if we’re lucky, yesterday. Hours of productivity are consumed by answering where or what is it now. Submitting forms automatically updates appropriate databases. Instead of being hunter-gatherers of data we become analyzer-deciders. Instant visibility to relevant processes and performance measures is achieved.