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SAP Solution Brief SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe

SAP® INTERACTIVE FORMS BY ADOBE
Extending the Power of SAP® Solutions by Automating Business Forms

Web-based forms can help you bridge the gap between paperbased processes and enterprise applications. SAP® Interactive Forms software by Adobe extends the power of SAP solutions with the versatility and accessibility of collaborative electronic forms documentation. The software enables you to streamline and automate your paper-based business processes, as well as to extend the reach of enterprise applications to company executives, partners, customers, and suppliers.

Companies across all industries face common challenges, among them increasing profitability and efficiency; ensuring customer satisfaction by providing responsive, efficient service; and ensuring compliance with government regulations. What you may not realize is how continued reliance upon paper-based business processes is holding your organization back from addressing these difficulties. Paper-based forms are surprisingly expensive, in part because of labor costs resulting from redundant manual interventions and time spent fixing human errors. Paper and storage costs also rapidly accumulate, especially given that forms quickly become obsolete. According to a 2004 study conducted by GISTICS, a UK-based analyst firm with expertise in digital asset management, a paper-based form costs the typical global enterprise US$75,000 per year in labor and materials – and most companies use 400 forms or more. At the same time, manual, paper-based processes are inefficient, create bottlenecks, and make it difficult to take advantage of automation built into enterprise applications. For example, hiring managers often require a senior executive’s signature before forwarding a job requisition to HR. In a paper-based scenario, the job requisition may be delayed in interoffice mail, sit on an executive’s desk under a pile of paperwork, or be inaccessible to the