• How many different document types are you using?
• How many different people are filling out these forms?
• Where, how and by whom is the data processed?
• How are the documents transferred to the central processing instance? With ordinary post, via fax or as attached scanned image?
• How many hardcopy does your current workflow require?
• Are you already using electronic copies, e.g. for archiving or data recognition or data entry purposes?
• How do you evaluate the time lag between data capture and data availability in your database?
• How urgent are you actually needing your data?
• Where do you identify your strictest bottleneck in your document transfer and processing system?
• Why is the data not typed in directly into your database with the help of keyboards?

Please describe the prospective dotforms application:

• How many different pens do you need?
• Do you require data upload to the application via mobile phones or does the upload via USB suffice?
• Do you require the possibility to edit documents after the first upload to the application?
• How many different document types are needed?
• Which data exports do you need?
• Electronic copies in which format: JPG, GIF, PDF, TIF?
• Do you need ASCII exports of numerical values and checkboxes and alphabetical values?
• Do you require the application to be hosted by a server inside your firewall or can the dotforms werbserver be used?