Built for Business

Everyone knows that being in business takes many forms. And we’re not talking about the entities or the type of business you are in.  We mean that literally. You need many forms because processing paperwork will be the number one task of anyone running their own business. 

Call them online forms, e-forms, dynamic forms, electronic forms, mobile forms, iPad forms, Android forms – they’re all part of the mountain of business forms that keeps millions of cubicle workers and business owners busy.

According to the latest statistics from the White House Office of Management and Budget, Americans spent 8.8 billion hours filling out government forms in 2010. And, that doesn’t include everyday business activities like expense reports and leave approvals.

Thanks to government regulations, the requirements of banks, the needs of insurers, the process of hiring and firing workers, referring patients, approving vacations, ordering supplies and the other sundry things required to operate, you spend a lot of time filling out forms. You’re always searching for forms either in filing cabinets or shared drives, entering the same data multiple times, correcting errors, and either e-mailing or printing and mailing them around. It’s expensive, time consuming and wasteful.

Where do these forms come from?  After all, they’re asking a multitude of questions about different aspects of life, different tasks, different experiences and certainly they have different intentions. There’s no “one size fits all” when it comes to the forms, which means that someone, somewhere needs to create them.

When you’re creating an online form, you have to turn to your Information Technology department. These valuable developers can spend hours creating forms and tediously coding, then running tests to make sure they work right.  That’s time that they could be spending on more valuable business tasks. And, once people have filled out your form, you again have to wait for I.T. to give you the data.

Fortunately, there are companies that provide business-user friendly online forms that are easy to customize. These web forms have all the functionality that creating one from scratch can achieve. Business users can modify them, and deploy them in no time. And, once filled out, the data is instantly available via email, Excel download or other mechanisms. This is a huge business advantage, since business users create and manage their own forms; they’ll just work on mobile devices, perform proper validation and save expensive developer resources.

So if you want to save time, your I.T. department’s sanity, and dramatically reduce the time spent drowning in paperwork, consider using pre-made online forms. Your I.T. people will thank you for it.

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