Forms-driven Business Process Optimization

Formatta E-Forms Manager 7.4

General Availability

Capabilities in this latest version enable organizations to deploy data capture solutions via the Internet and
extend enterprise applications outside existing infrastructure and ecosystems. In today's economic
environment, reducing operational cost, delivering on straight through processing and deploying more
environmentally friendly (green) programs are high priority. This latest release of E-Forms Manager
accelerates all of these initiatives as well as enabling collaborative standards based data sharing.

Key feature in E-Forms Manager Version 7.4:

Catalog Web Services API

Now available in this latest version is the E-Forms Manager Web Services API. The Web Services API is a
set of SOAP-based web services that facilitates application-level integration with E-Forms Manager.

The Catalog Services provided by the EFM Web Services API is categorized and described as services that
allow applications to query the E-Forms Manager Form Catalog in order to obtain information about forms
and their automation configuration within the catalog.

Other recently released features in E-Forms Manager include:

SQL Server / Oracle Data Repository Support
Beginning with this release, the data repository for the E-Forms Manager system, which holds all form
catalog information, submitted and signed form content, and most application configurations, can be
optionally kept in a SQL Server or Oracle database system. Prior to this version, the EFM data repository
was always stored and managed using a database engine that is included in the E-Forms Manager
installation. While the use of the embedded database engine is still an option, the ability to use an external
SQL Server or Oracle database can provide the following benefits:

		Simpler management, since the EFM repository becomes part of an organization’s existing
		managed infrastructure
		Ability to perform backup and recovery tasks in a manner consistent with your organization’s existing
		procedures and infrastructure
		Ability to store E-Forms Manager data on server separate from that on which the E-Forms Manager
		application is running

The default configuration of E-Forms Manager still involves the embedded database, allowing for fast and
simple setup of the system. Once E-Forms Manager is initially installed, you may run the EFM Data
Repository Configuration Utility in order to create an EFM repository in an external database and to configure
EFM to use the new database. For existing installations upgraded to version 7.3, you may run this tool in
order to perform a migration of the existing EFM data repository to an external database as well.

Separation of Administration Console from E-Form Processing Engine
Also in this release, the main E-Forms Manager web application (previously referred to with the efm web
context) has been divided into two distinct application components that allow simpler network-based
separation of EFM’s administrative interface from its e-form processing component. The administrative and
processing engine components are now referenced with web context roots of efm-admin and efm
respectively. The server can optionally be configured to make these applications listen on separate server
ports.

JDBC Connectivity Support for Autofill and Autowrite
Prior to this release, database connections for use with Autofill, Autowrite, and RDBMS-based authentication
were all defined in EFM through the use of ODBC data source names and connectivity. Starting in version
7.3, E-Forms Manager allows the use of JDBC drivers and connectivity as another option for external data
source access.

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