AgilePoint for Microsoft InfoPath


AgilePoint BPMS together with Microsoft InfoPath and Form Server, provides business users with an extremely productive, open environment to model, compose, simulate, and enhance executable business processes that need to gather and share information across multiple participants.

The combined solution enables process owners to easily design human interface forms that are XML-based with virtually no coding and serve as a lightweight way to put in and retrieve information across multiple participants by utilizing collaborative and shareable data stores. The resulting human interface forms can be worked on off-line and routed throughout the progression of the business process, making the InfoPath the perfect partner for AgilePoint based BPM applications.



AgilePoint Envision, the Visio based process modeling environment, provides the option of associating an InfoPath form with an AgilePoint process model and visually binding different InfoPath form views with the relevant activities to drive the system-to-human and human-to-human process. This advancement heightens the clarity and manageability of process model to a new level to benefit time to market and lower costs.

Once an InfoPath form is associated with an AgilePoint process model, it can be published to a SharePoint Portal Server and trigger the AgilePoint process when the form is consumed. AgilePoint’s out-of-the-box integrated task management with SharePoint Portal provides process participants a convenient way to interact through the Portal’s form collaboration.

The end result is a very powerful platform where AgilePoint maintains your process. InfoPath maintains and structures your data, SharePoint Portal is a task management hub, and AgilePoint Envision keeps your business users' domain knowledge at the very core of the process.


   
 


Accelerated Time-to-Market: Quickly create and deploy flexible BPM solutions by using InfoPath data and form views as an active part of the business process in AgilePoint Envision with no coding.

Reduced Development Cost: Eliminate the need to develop Web forms or Win forms with code-free InfoPath based XML forms.

Performance Efficiency: Unlike Web forms, InfoPath XML forms can be processed offline and connect to server on demand to alleviate server load.

Familiar Office Application Environment: Because InfoPath and Envision are built on familiar Microsoft Office products, new processes can be adopted quickly with minimal training.