Business processes can be “as smooth as chocolate”; find out for yourself during appropriately named ANASOFT presentation: As Smooth As Chocolate or Interactive Business Processes, on April 3rd, at SAP World Tour 2008.

Continuously intensifying automation of business processes within today’s corporation requires user friendly medium which is conveniently readable, easily processed, and portable. The medium of choice is an electronic document.

New Generation of form technologies in SAP.
Interactive Forms (IF) are new generation of electronic documents in well known PDF format. They allow for dynamic generation of electronic documents containing data from the corporate IS, delivery to the recipient, off line editing by the recipient with option of signing with recipients electronic signature, and finally online submitting of filled in data back to the IS.

Interactive Forms are product of Adobe and SAP partnership started in 2002. The companies have integrated together PDF technologies (Adobe Document Server, Live Cycle Designer) with SAP NetWeaver platform (AS ABAP, AS JAVA, SAP NW Development Studio).

Following are basic business uses of Interactive Forms in SAP:

1. Generation of PDF documents with delivery using email/fax/post followed by optional archiving.
2. Online editing of forms within electronic documents presented within standard web browser generated by SAP NetWeaver.
3. Offline editing of forms within electronic documents received by email or downloaded from a web page.
4. Signing of electronic documents.