Formatta Flexibility

With Formatta, one form satisfies all your distribution needs. The same form can be downloaded from a website, emailed, printed, or faxed. There is no need to keep multiple versions. Formatta Filler has built-in functionality for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, and MIME while Formatta Server automates all your form processes.

With Formatta, users can save data locally, export into tools or other applications, attach other files, edit fields, encrypt, decrypt, lock sections, post, email, route, and digitally sign forms.

Formatta solutions work the same for both your internal and public applications because Formatta Filler 7.0 is freely distributable. Paper forms are free; Formatta believes e-forms should be as well.

Formatta Security

Formatta allows end-users to confidently submit private information. If a third party intercepts a form on the client, in transit, or on the server - Formatta’s native 128-bit encryption prevents the form data from being viewed or altered.

Formatta utilizes algorithms for hashing, key exchange, and Triple DES. Formatta Server connects data sources or LDAP’s to incorporate common authentication and secure pre-fill capabilities. Formatta Filler accepts X.509 certificates and allows multiple digital signatures for a single form.

Formatta allows groups of fields to be locked while other groups are unlocked. This type of encryption allows the locked data to be visible while maintaining encryption applied by the user. This is particularly useful when there is a chain of custody or when multiple users exchange the same form.

Formatta Filler permits other files to be attached to e-forms, thus creating a secure container for other types of documents via email or the web. Formatta’s architecture keeps the form and data together during submission allowing regulated industries to keep legally binding, non-repudiable copies of the form and data as they were originally presented and submitted.

Formatta Automation

Formatta Server 7.0 is used to automate all e-form processing and update file systems and databases with structured XML or other formats in real-time or as a batch. The Server can connect to data sources and repositories by ADO, XML, CVS, and plain text.

Formatta bridges paper and electronic processes and allows you to collect data from paper for the same cost as electronic forms. Because other solutions lack this hybrid processing option, originators have never had the ability to substantially reduce costs. Formatta solves this problem by offering Dual Dimensional barcode technology, allowing end-users to submit the same form electronically or on paper. This is especially useful when inked signatures are required.

With this hybrid option, the user can complete the form on a computer, print it out with a secure barcode, and send it via the U.S. Mail. Though the form arrives on paper, the processing can still be done electronically. Any flatbed or handheld scanner can read the barcode using Formatta's Dual Dimension Server.  The barcode is decrypted, and the form’s contents are extracted into back office file systems or databases.  In addition, the actual paper form is authenticated.