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  Click to view/download What’s New in Mi-Forms Version 9 (PDF)

Mi-Forms Version 9 is a major evolution to the Mi-Forms platform; already one of the most flexible enterprise-class mobile data capture
solutions available. V9 improves the functionality and user experience on iPad & Android tablets, supports Windows 8, and adds a
variety of other features that leverage the power & flexibility of the Mi-Forms system—reaffirming Mi-Forms as the best solution for
capturing any data, on any device and integrating that data anywhere!

Mi-Forms v9 features include:

Design

Grid fields can be easily resized

• Improved control over grid display
• Form Usability
• Paper-like forms on iPad/Android tablets
• Pinch-zoom manipulation of forms on touch-devices
• Collapsible menus for more screen real estate
• Finger swipes from page to page

Capture

• Support for multi-photo capture in same field
• Ability to change inking pen color for photo markupand signatures
• Hide and reuse pages as needed
• Scan barcodes with your device’s camera on IOS

Validate

• Instant form rules validation even while offline
• Create custom client-side rules in JavaScript

Communicate

• Make Ajax for data transfer while form capture occurs

Workflow

• Embed Mi-Forms mobile web forms directly in your
  own web application
• Active Directory support for iOS & Android devices

API

• JavaScript API allows for form customization at filling
  time
• Handle events in the form’s lifecycle

Platform Support

Native Clients

• iPad (iOS v5.1+)
• Android (v4.0+)
• Windows 8 Pro
• Windows 7 & XP

Web Browsers

• Internet Explorer 10
• Windows 7 & XP
• Safari
• Firefox

Server

• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows Server 2003

Industry-Leading Handwriting Recognition

• Combination of multiple handwriting recognition technologies for best recognition on the market: 98.5% accuracy for alpha characters, 99.5% for numeric characters
• Constrained print recognition with explicit control over legal character sets and lexica support
• Recognition of narrative handwriting with custom and standard lexica support
• Customizable handwriting recognition verification user interface

Powerful Mi-Forms Designer

• Mobile web, iPad, Android JavaScript scripting editor
• WYSIWYG designer builds forms optimized for all devices
• Data palette based design allows creating forms from
• CDISC ODM, IBM Lotus Forms, ODBC, XML Schema & Intel Mobile Clinical Assistant
• Import forms via standard form conversion tool
• Point-and-click authoring of validation rules
• Built-in form test mode allows you to test form scripts and datapaths
• Spell checking
• Integration with Visual Studio 2010
• Full keyboard/mouse support

Rich Forms

• Paper-like formatted forms on iPad, Android & mobile web forms
• Touch support for Windows
• JavaScript API for iPad, Android & mobile web forms
• Multiple pictures in a single image annotation field
• Improved user interface on Windows allows more screen real estate to fill forms
• Capture discrete data via checkboxes, picklists, and constrained print fields
• Capture freeform ink for notes, signatures, and diagrams
• Audio annotations allow user to include audio recordings with other data
• Real-time display of validation rule status, with field navigation to assist the user in correcting validation rule violations
• Support for barcode scanners (via keyboard wedge) and RFID
• Support for GPS & geolocation
• Print forms at point-of-capture
• Full keyboard/mouse support

Flexible Data Exports

• XML
• CSV
• ODBC
• MSJet (Access)
• PDF, PNG, TIFF, JPG, BMP
• Microsoft Outlook
• Mi-Forms Session Files
• BM Lotus Forms

Data Security

• Encrypted templates
• Encrypted sessions
• HTTPS communication
• Audit trails (date, time, user) for all captured data
• Session history
• Session security hashing
• Automatic background saving

Centralized Management with Mi-Forms Server

• Paper-like formatted mobile web forms in browsers
• Integrate mobile web forms into your own
• application
• Improved inactive session deletion interface
• Centralized authentication of users with standard
• security features
• Active Directory integration
• Password strength enforcement
• Password expiration
• Account lockout

• Centralized data export including custom exports
• from script
• Queue-based workflow for users and groups
• Logic based on form contents
• Form locking
• Open web-services based communication over
• HTTP(S) for SDK built apps
• Administrative re-export of data
• Universally accessibly web-based interface
• Built on industry standard technologies
• Session archival and auditing
• History of every session
• Renderings of all pages in a form
• Customer activity reporting for transactional based solutions
• Session searching

Powerful Component Architecture

• Mi-Forms Component can be licensed to bring the intuitive mobile form interface of Mi-Forms to your custom applicatio
• .NET architecture for easy integration into applications
• Use the same object model in script code or external applications
• Automate form prefill / workflow through web services
• Embedded VB.NET & JavaScript

Scripting

• Use script language to perform complex data validation
• Comprehensive object model and rich event model allows control of all aspects of the user’s interaction with the form
• Designer includes syntax-highlighting editor andcompiler (no Visual Studio license required)
• Debugging form script via VS.NET supported
• Scripting editor with auto-complete and real-time compilation of .NET code

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Announcing Mi-Forms Version 9 – More Usability, Flexibility, Platforms & Power!

Mi-Forms Version 9 is a major evolution to the Mi-Forms platform; already one of the most flexible enterprise-class mobile data capture solutions available. V9 improves the functionality and user experience on iPad & Android tablets, supports Windows 8, and adds a variety of other features that leverage thepower & flexibility of the Mi-Forms system—reaffirming Mi-Forms as the best solution for capturing any data, on any device and integrating that data anywhere!

Public-facing forms can now be deployed using Mi-Forms as well. Test this example and contact Mi-Co Support  to discuss your public-facing forms needs!

  What’s New In Mi-Forms v9 (pdf)

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Our latest video tour of Mi-Forms on iPad – our latest release of our Mobile App for Enterprise eForms and mobile data capture.

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DURHAM, NC–(Marketwired – Apr 25, 2013) – Mi-Co, a leading Mobile-Forms software company, honored innovative Mi-Forms users at the Awards Luncheon during the Mi-Co PartnerEd 2013 conference last week, for their use of Tablets to dramatically improve the business processes of their organizations. The following awards were presented: Mi-Forms User of the Year to the Newmont Mining; Mi-Forms Impact Player of the Year to NYU College of Dentistry; Mi-Forms Process Improvement Organization to IDCRP; and the Mi-Co Innovation Award to nVOQ, Inc.

Mi-Forms User of the Year awardee, Newmont Mining, a Fortune 500 company, has used Mi-Forms technology on Tablets to eliminate paper-forms used in Training Documentation for new employees operating equipment, making for quick, easy electronic storage & retrieval of information when needed. Mi-Forms Impact Player of the Year NYU College of Dentistry uses Mi-Forms Mobile-Forms software on Tablets to capture patient information during dental outreach clinics around the world, allowing them to save more than 100 man-hours on data-entry, and has improved billing cycle time as well. IDCRP, a DoD Clinical Research organization, has improved clinical trial data collection by replacing paper-forms with Mi-Forms Mobile-Forms on Tablets, and has seen 100x fewer query rates, 50% time savings and a much more satisfied clinical research staff. And nVOQ, Inc. has voice-enabled Mi-Forms mobile-forms such that voice dictation and commands can be used to fill forms on Tablets, achieving the Mi-Co Innovation Award.

This is the eighth year that Mi-Co has presented awards to organizations that have demonstrated innovation in the use of Tablets and other mobile devices for mobile data capture and process change. Past winners of Mi-Co Awards include representatives of the Internal Revenue Service, Sutter Health, Eli Lilly, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Cataler North America, the US Department of Agriculture, Boston Public Health Commission, and more. According to Greg Clary, CEO, “With the mainstream adoption of Tablets bringing efficiencies to businesses and boosting productivity, we have seen a tremendous interest in replicating Mi-Co’s customer success stories by many organizations. Mi-Co expects to honor many more organizations in the years to come for their innovative use of Tablets to improve business processes.”

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We would once again like to thank our sponsors, partners, customers and friends for making our conference such a huge success. Long-time attendees called it the “Best Conference in our history!”

We here at Mi-Co were inspirED. Whether it was from hearing about the fantastic work our featured charities and customers are doing both locally and globally to help those in need, from hearing about the technological innovations companies like nVoq (Voice Recognition software company) are bringing to market and hearing Intel’s Eric Dishman, Director of Proactive Health Research, TED-talk encouraging us to take charge of our health care with technology.

We learnED a lot! Whether it was from learning about how using Mi-Forms provided such amazing ROI to our customers by enabling them to stream line their business processes and ensuring accurate data was integrated into their back end systems, or by learning about best practices during Mi-Forms mobile-forms Tablet implementations, and form design/deployment. Thanks to Motion Computing’s VP of Marketing, Peter Poulin, we learnED about analyzing the actual cost of rugged versus consumer tablets, and thanks to Texcel we learned about an easy way to transform existing forms to Mi-Forms.

We were PartnerED!  And it sure looked as if you were too! We were impressed by the crowds surrounding the booths of Westbrook Technologies, NewWave and TabletKiosk, some of our other sponsors. We were excited to hear the exchange of ideas taking place amongst our customers and partners. We are so pleased we were able to provide this venue that allowed you all to make such meaningful business contacts.

Please visit our PartnerEd 2013 Partner portal over the next few weeks – we will be posting pictures and presentation materials that speakers have made available to attendees.

We look forward to working with and supporting all of you in the near future with your mobile data capture needs, and seeing you at PartnerEd 2014!

Sincerely,

Mi-Co Team

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I had the pleasure to attend the Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Executive Summit in Chicago this week as an invited guest. The theme was around scalable patient engagement and related technologies that could have true impacts in healthcare. Another invited guest, Dr. Abhijeet Basoor, Chief Cardiology Fellow at St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital, discussed his famous heart-failure checklist that was highlighted by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) for reducing readmission rates at hospital.

Dr. Basoor showed how his checklist could be more scalable, efficient and enable information sharing with colleagues when made electronic, and showed a version of this checklist on a Surface Pro tablet using Mi-Forms, best-of-breed mobile-forms software!

He had just 10 minutes or so to train on the Mi-Forms mobile-form, due to a flight delay, but did a rock star job with the demo in front of the executive audience of top healthcare organizations! It was great to be there to coach him, watch this session and hear about some of other innovative technologies Microsoft partners are bringing to bear in the market to make a difference in healthcare!

- Gautham Pandiyan, VP of Sales & Marketing, Mi-Co

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So we’ve all heard the terms get bandied around right? MEAP, MADP, and all kinds of variations of it. I’m referring to Mobile Enterprise Application Platform and Mobile Application Development Platform. Folks like Verivo Software, Antenna Software, Sybase, Appcelerator and many others. Sometimes folks ask me how what we do at Mi-Co is different from producing software from these vendors. I think of Mobile-Forms as a subset perhaps, of MEAP/MADP, and an ever more important, increasingly focused subset.

Everything starts with a Form

Think about it – almost everything starts with a form. Applying for a job, performing an inspection, seeing a patient etc. etc. – when there are so many mobile devices, operating systems and complex ways businesses operate, the need for “flexible mobile-forms” is more than ever! It’s pretty easy to have an electronic form created that may or may not render appropriately on mobile devices. However, to be able to produce sophisticated mobile-forms that are highly optimized for the platforms on which they deploy (BYOD sometimes), requires a whole level deeper sophistication.

Getting the Most Value from Your Mobile Forms

Mobile forms offer the most value when they can communicate dynamically back to databases, when they can hide and show fields/pages as needed, when they can enforce complex business rules and guide users through the process of gathering complex, critical business data and export that back to as many systems as needed in a variety of formats. In addition, as technology is evolving, users are looking touch, write, dictate into these mobile forms software products, and add rich data such as photo/image capture, GPS coordinates, RFID tags, interact with external devices and much more.

We ran a survey back in December of about 10,000 people and found that the #1 thing businesses look for in the selection of mobile forms software is “Flexibility”. With the fast pace of change in technology and workflows of users, this protects a company from having to go buy a new set of technology a year or two from now when there is a need for voice-recognition entry into forms, rather than simple keyboarding, or multi-photo capture & annotation, or deep database calls and so on. With the increasing number of companies in this space claiming to do all of these things, the other key attribute to look for is experience & longevity.

Ask your Mobile-Forms provider, now that you understand what that is, how long they have been in the business of mobile-forms. Not generic e-forms software, or mobile ‘apps’, but how long have they been working with businesses on ‘mobile-forms’ projects. If they have been doing it longer than 10 years, you know they didn’t just jump in when the going got good, and they have some serious experience and development cycles under their belt.

Good luck and as always should you need to discuss this further, don’t hesitate to reach out to me at gpandiyan@mi-corporation.com. Go forth and eliminate all those paper processes!

Gautham Pandiyan

Mi-Co

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Learn how one major Federal Government Healthcare organization utilized Tablets for more efficient, accurate Clinical Trial Data Capture with this case study.   Pharmaceutical and life science companies, challenged to make more efficient use of scarce resources, are turning to mobile data capture to improve trial completion time, accuracy & more.

Download this case study to discover why IDCRP selected and how they deployed Tablets and Mi-Forms, what they learned and the benefits they’re experiencing.

In this case study, you’ll learn how IDCRP used Mi-Forms and Tablet Kiosk to:
- Cut costs immediately with mobile data capture
- Reduce query rates dramatically & speed trial completion
- Enable multi-site offline data capture to secure more business
- Increase margins through operational efficiencies – immediately

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