Prisma Solutions recently announced that it would be distributing Cardiff`s eForm automation system for eBusiness and eGovernment organisations in southern Africa.
This announcement followed after Adobe Systems Incorporated, a leader in network Publishing, and Cardiff Software, a leader in XML-based eBusiness automation solutions, announced an expanded alliance to deliver complete automated electronic form solutions based upon the newly announced Adobe Acrobat 5.0 software.
Hugo Leuner, MD, Prisma Solutions believes that the alliance will result in an end-to-end solution for digital online forms based upon the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) standard.
As part of the Alliance, Cardiff will offer LiquidForms, an XML-based eForm management system that adds form design and web-based routing, approval and submission capabilities to users of Adobe PDF forms.
Leuner explains that LiquidForms will leverage Acrobat 5.0 and Adobe PDF to provide an industry standard client interface form filling and signing.
In addition Leuner claims that LiquidForms will leverage Cardiff`s role as a technical editor for the World Wide Web Consortium`s XForms Working Group.
Leuner explains that Adobe Acrobat 5.0 will allow businesses to transcend the barriers between the paper and digital environment while maintaining a familiar look and feel to that of the original form. Prisma Solutions asserts that the combined solution offered by Acrobat 5.0 and LiquidForms will speed up the creation of Interactive Adobe PDF forms when integrated into business processes, resulting in shorter cycle times, reduced processing costs and increased data accuracy.
LiquidForms and Adobe Acrobat`s combined efforts resulted the delivery of an open approach to implementing an eForm automation system for eBusiness and eGovernment organisations.
In addition forms that are designed in the system are instantly portable, and the elimination of a proprietary filler client will resolve the downstream support and maintenance costs associated with historical client-server solutions.
The LiquidForms eForm Management System, from Cardiff, will be shipped in June. Leuner believe that LiquidForms represents a shift in the eForm automation product segment by using XML, Adobe PDF and HTML standards. In addition LiquidForms uses universally accepted Web clients for form fill and routing: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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