Forms-driven Business Process Optimization

Formatta E-Forms Manager 7.5

General Availability

August 12, 2010 - Capabilities in this latest release of E-Forms Manager continue to enhance an
organization's ability 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. E-Forms Manager accelerates all of these initiatives as well as enabling collaborative
standards-based data sharing.

Key features in E-Forms Manager version 7.5 include:

ApplicationXtender Windows Security Model Support

This release enhances E-Forms Manager's robust ApplicationXtender integration by adding support for the
use of Windows security when accessing and logging into AppXtender Web Services. This allows E-Forms
Manager to connect to an ApplicationXtender server through an AppXtender Web Services interface that has
been configured to authenticate users through Windows security using NTLM authentication.

Autowrite Stored Procedure Call Support

Since the release of E-Forms Manager's Autowrite feature, organizations have been able to export form data
to an external database to support their business processes. This enhancement provides an additional
export option allowing a stored procedure to be called during an Autowrite process. This new export option
will allow organizations to further customize how form data is exported.

SQL Server-related Data Repository Configuration Utility Enhancements

The E-Forms Manager Data Repository Configuration utility program has been enhanced to support the
following types of connections to a SQL Server database:

		Connections to a named instance
		Connections to a SQL Server instance using Windows Authentication

The E-Forms Manager Data Repository Configuration utility program allows you to create a data repository in an external database and to configure E-Forms Manager to use the new database. For existing installations
upgraded to versions 7.3 or above, you may run this tool in order to perform a migration of the existing E-
Forms Manager data repository to an external database as well.

Other recently released features in E-Forms Manager include:

Catalog Web Services API

The 7.4 release of E-Forms Manager added the E-Forms Manager Web Services API feature. 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 E-Forms Manager 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.

SQL Server / Oracle Data Repository Support

Starting with the 7.3 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 E-Forms Manager 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 E-Forms Manager 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

Separation of Administration Console from E-Form Processing Engine

Also in the 7.3 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 E-Forms Manager’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

Starting with the 7.3 release, E-Forms Manager allows the use of JDBC drivers and connectivity as another
option for external data source access.

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