Flowfinity Wireless Inc., a leading
provider of adaptable applications
and fully integrated solutions for
the wireless enterprise, today is
announcing the release of Flowfinity
Forms 5.1, an adaptable application
for mobile data collection that is
designed to eliminate papers forms
or the distribution of spreadsheets
between team members. By automating
data collection and collation by
using BlackBerry® smartphones from
Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM;
TSX:RIM), businesses can collect
data faster and more accurately
while centrally storing and
collating the data for immediate
use.
Flowfinity Forms has been on the
market for over 5 years, has a large
base of customers, and has been an
award-winning product over the
years. It has remained unique in the
mobile data collection category by
combining a point-and-click visual
form editor, over-the-air form
deployment, end-to-end security,
always available forms, submission
notification for managers, and
centralized data collation. This new
version adds features that will make
it even easier:
-
by
offering the
ability to create mobile
forms from spreadsheets within
minutes
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by
allowing users to fill-in forms
from a desktop or laptop through
a web portal in addition to
BlackBerry® smartphones
Microsoft Excel has over 450 million
users and businesses often initially
try and deploy mobile data
collection solutions using
spreadsheets and notebook computers.
However, spreadsheets are not
designed for multiple users entering
data at the same time, so, unless
you manually mail around a single
spreadsheet to every user one at a
time, this results in multiple
spreadsheets. Managing data
collection with multiple
spreadsheets require many days of
manual effort to collect and collate
for the collected data to be used.
Now with Flowfinity Forms, take any
spreadsheet that you have been using
as a data collection solution and
import it into Flowfinity Forms and
create and deploy a mobile forms
application within minutes. And,
instead of trying to boot up a
notebook computer every time a data
collection need arises, simply use
your BlackBerry smartphone to
quickly and effortlessly enter and
submit the data (where it is
collated immediately for use by your
organization).
"Our customers have found it
valuable to have an out-of-the-box
solution that lets them build
whatever forms they wanted without
needing a programmer," said Larry
Wilson, Flowfinity's VP of Sales and
Marketing. "Now it is even easier
with the new capability of migrating
from inefficient spreadsheets to
mobile forms in a matter of
minutes."
