Form.io
A Holistic Form Building Platform

Across industries, forms are an indispensable part of most processes—be it collecting customer feedback, conducting surveys, filling loan applications, and enrolling insurance schemes, to name a few. In today's convenience craving world, forms ought to be user-friendly and flexible to build. With the emergence of progressive web applications, developers are expected to create responsive forms that not only provide fine user experiences but also offer streamlined collection and storage of form data. However, that is easier said than done, as the separation between the front-end and backend of applications makes it difficult to build and manage form-based workflows. To this end, enterprises need a comprehensive form builder solution that can help them develop user-friendly forms that connect seamlessly to back-end systems via relevant APIs.

Delivering just that is Form.io, a leading provider of enterprise-class API-based platforms to build highly customized forms for progressive web applications and data management. With the Form.io platform, companies and developers can create form-based applications with user authentication, permissions, and data security without a great deal of time and cost. “We are proud to offer our incredibly agile and scalable, decoupled form and API platform as an open source,” speaks Gary Wetzel, CEO and Co-Founder of Form.io.

Form-based Applications Simplified

The Texas-based company offers plentyof resources to create new customized forms or with its prebuilt templates. Developers can make them look appealing for users in terms of fonts, colors,and thematic attributes. With the platform’s easy-to-use drag and drop tool, enterprises can create instant data model objects for even complex workflows. Once created, these forms are embedded accordingly to the server-side via promptly generated REST APIs. Likewise, developers can extract form data inreal-time using webhooks, websockets, or low-code data requests. Form.io automatically keeps the data updated on the serverside and enables clients to access their dynamic form-based workflows easily. For instance, accessing multipage forms with nested fields and collecting form data in offline operation modes becomes smooth sailing for clients. Companies can also embed these form-building capabilities into their applications to serve their customers.

“Regardless of what you are looking to accomplish with your server-less business process application, Form. io makes the process easier as anice breaker,” says Gary.

Clients can securely deploy their form-based applications using open source Docker containers on the cloud oron-premise behind firewalls. Besides, they gain ownership of their database architecture with utmost security via Form.io’s data encryption at field-level, rest, and in-transit. Developers can create multiple call to- actions such as sending e-mails, user validations, and third-party integrations. Furthermore, the platform supports multilingual usage.

For an additional charge, Form. io also offers Form Manager, a prebuilt PaaS application purpose-built for enterprise-level projects. The company recently rolled out a Tenant Manager application that allows clients to achieve multi-tenancy as well as independent form building and management capabilities. Apart from their core offerings, Form.io provides professional services such as developer support and training, form building services, and remote deployment support with varied price plans. “Our pricing model creates an almost immediate return on investment,” mentions Gary.

Exemplarity Success Stories

With such broad capabilities, Form. io has helped many companies who needed a flexible, ready-built solution for data modeling without interfering with their existing forms and interfaces. The company success stories best exemplify Form.io’s value proposition. For example, on partnering with Form. io, Transparency-One, a well-known supply chain organization, gained ground to build and deploy its data models inliaison with the growing user network. Its customized API platform has helped the client with the fastest go-to-market solution that easily integrates with existing data stacks. With the remarkable multitenancy feature, Form.io proves itself as a crucial pre-sales tool, helping the client’s sales team to demonstrate advanced data capabilities for responsible sourcing.

Form.io came to the rescue of another healthcare software company named HealthSplash that was burdened with time-consuming, hard-code health-data collection and exchange across various health information solutions. The redundancy in data entry was expensive for the client to operate. Form.io helped them from basic data input needs to it score data management and development activities as a stand-alone product. Retroactively, the client was able to turn out their hard-coded forms to a versatile, fully integrated solution.

"Our core offerings enable clients across different business applications to perceive immediate improvements and save a huge sum with our tailored data structures,” says Gary.

Global companies of all sizes and shapes use Form.io solutions across industry verticals, including federal agencies, healthcare, banking, finance, insurance, legal bodies, multi-tenanted SaaS enterprises, and software development organizations. “As governments and agencies grapple with standard forms, Form.io makes them understand that older solutions are deadends,” Gary adds. Additionally, Form.io helps developers and other user groups to spend time developing useful applications rather than forms and API creation. Form.io is thereby pioneering the next generation of form building with its most powerful API solution and services.

“Our speed-to-market progressive web-based platform helps us realize the modernization and form digitization goals,” concludes Gary.