How I stopped designing from scratch and learned to reuse existing forms

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PDF Forms in SharePoint

PDF forms and SharePoint are better together

How I stopped designing from scratch

and learned to reuse existing forms

Degi Karayev

4/6/2016 2

Agenda

Company

Current product portfolio (on-premise and cloud)

Business case — reuse existing form

Demonstration

Q&A

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PDF Share Forms Company

Leading PDF forms integration company

Headquarters in Irvine, CA with sales and support office in Europe

Focus on SharePoint 2010, 2013 and Office 365

Multiple awardee and finalist:

“Best SharePoint Intranet/Extranet Solution”winner at 2014 European SharePoint Conference

“Best SharePoint App”winner at 2013 European SharePoint

Conference

“Best Office 365 Solution”finalist at 2015 European SharePoint Conference

“Best SharePoint Solution”finalist at 2015 European SharePoint Conference

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PDF Share Forms Company

Since 2010

• Customers in all verticals• Manufacturing

• Energy

• Education

• Finance

• Local and federal government

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Product Portfolio

www.pdfshareforms.com

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Existing form integration

Who wants to (re)create a form?

• Government forms are “read only” – reuse it as it is

• Let your users do it — give power to the Information Worker

• Extract form data easily – automated synchronization

• "Document" is a key. Not just XML data.

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Demonstration – W-4 form

Challenges to overcome:

Reuse existing form

Data prepopulation

Data calculation

Support of digital signatures

Mobile and offline support

Form as attachment

Workflow

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Demonstration

PDF forms and SharePoint are better together

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Why PDF Forms?

• ISO Standard• No more proprietary formats

• Aligned with Microsoft

• Document is not just XML data• Digital Signatures

• Compliance

• Offline and Mobile Scenarios

• Designed for Information Worker• Use tools of your choice to design forms: Word, Acrobat, InDesign

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Questions and answers

www.pdfshareforms.com

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Presentation summary

• PDF forms are better choice for forms

• Extract data automatically

• Secure access to your data

• Create form designs without limits

• Work smarter with power rules and scripting

• Workflow support

• Digital signature support

How I stopped designing from scratch and learned to reuse existing forms

Software

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