Business Forms Management Association, Inc.
Northwest Washington Chapter - May 2008
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Chapter Programs: Program RecapsRecent PresentationsApril 2008LEAP: E-forms RFP Case Study Presented by Karen Albright, Puget Sound Energy This program discussed Puget Sound Energy’s eForms Request for Proposal process. • The steps Puget Sound Energy took to prepare an RFP for E-forms • How BFMA played a huge role in where to go, who to go out to bid to, and what to put into the bid • The different questions PSE asked about what they wanted the end result to be • What questions to ask vendors and how to evaluate each question • Assembling a matrix to evaluate each supplier • Who do you need on your team and how to get a sponsor, and should you have a project manager? • What PSE is doing today with e-forms and their LEAP into the future March 2008 Convenience Breeds Compliance - Technology for Deploying Rich Forms, Simpler and Easier Presented by Matthew Lonergan, Microsoft Matthew Lonergan, Microsoft This session talked about ways to devolve the task of creating and deploying forms away from the bastion of IT to the people who actually know how the processes work. Business processes start with getting accurate information into the hands of those who can work with it effectively. Technology makes it both easier to create and deploy rich forms, and simpler and easier for users to fill them out. View the PowerPoint: "Excel, InfoPath, and SharePoint Integration" February 2008 Building and Maintaining Really Useful Websites without Knowing HTML Presented by Rick Cordray, Image Technologies This presentation demonstrated some ways to build really useful websites without writing HTML. It was explained how websites really work and some examples were shown of tools that make complex websites look easy. January 2008 IBM Product Update Presented by Tom Simmons, IBM This program on IBM forms products included discussions of the following: • Lotus Forms, IBM's 3.0 release from September. • The new update of Lotus Forms which is due at the end of January which includes integrations with Process Server, and Filenet. • IBM's announcement of a new Portal Accelerator, called Business Process Accelerator, which includes Lotus Forms and is due in Q2. • IBM's Direction with Lotus Forms. • Getting feedback from BFMA attendees on our plans and what we'd like and want in future releases. |