Case study

1st is a market-leading technology provider specialising in the provision of state-of-the-art solutions to customers in the financial services industry. 1st’s products include a highly configurable server-side processing system, and a rich-client component with offline data capture. By adding formsPlayer to the mix--incorporated directly into their .NET application--1st were able to generate user interfaces on the fly, with support for advanced features such as XML processing and validation, dynamic page formatting based on business rules, exporting the current state of a form to XSL:FO (for PDF printing), and more.

Tyco Healthcare's EForms system is a paperless workflow application. The application makes use of XForms to enable data capture, approvals and routing of electronic forms.

Remia are a large food manufacturer based in the Netherlands. Their XForms application is a Customer Relationship Management system that required a high level of configurability, for fast adaptation to business-requirements to empower users.

Willem de Vries, from Remia, presented on some of the ideas and concepts behind their system, at EDGE 2004, in Prague.

Hewlett Packard Italy are using leading-edge technologies -- such as XForms and formsPlayer -- to produce a next generation banking system.

From Andy Haydon, VP, Software Development at CollegeNET:

Our previous web applications used a lot of effort (in both development terms and during actual execution) to generate HTML pages, XForms allows for a much greater separation of concerns so that we now have static HTML pages and a set of 'web services' to provide data. This has lead to an improved development cycle and a reduced level of hardware.