Tablet PC | Digital Pen | Pocket PC | Signature Pad

The Mi-Forms System for Tablet PC
maximizes the potential of the Tablet PC platform by providing the most intuitive form-filling interface imaginable. Mi-Forms for Tablet PC succeeds in bringing the natural pen-on-paper interface to a digital device.

Mi-Forms for Tablet PC is a convenient and easy-to-use data collection system for your enterprise. If your business collects data on paper forms or keys in lots of records by hand, then the Mi-Forms software system will save you money and time. Organizations using the Mi-Forms System:

1. Will save time and money in their data capture process,
2. Will increase the quality of the data they are collecting, and
3. Will have a data capture platform that provides flexibility as their data capture needs change.

5 Easy Steps to using Mi-Forms on a Tablet PC
Only 5 steps are needed to put the Mi-Forms Tablet PC data capture system to work in your business:

• Install the Mi-Forms Client product software on your Tablet PC
• Convert your current data collection forms (or create new forms) with Mi-Forms Designer
• Create validation checks and business rules based on your information needs
• Deploy forms via the Mi-Forms Server (optional) or directly to the Tablet PC running Mi-Forms Client software
• Export collected data to your existing system

Tablet PC Hardware
Tablet PCs are similar to laptops and come with advanced handwriting recognition software and a special display screen that works with an electronic pen for taking notes and filling forms. Microsoft's Tablet PC is a fully functioning notebook that runs Windows XP Tablet PC Edition -- a special version of its Windows XP operating system. Thin and lightweight, the devices are being built to Microsoft specifications by computer companies such as Lenovo, Motion Computing, Gateway, Fujitsu, HP, and Toshiba.

Pen on Paper with the Digital Pen

Non-obtrusive mobile data capture is a key requirement for many organizations. The combination of the digital pen, from such world-class manufacturers as Logitech, Nokia and Hitachi-Maxell, and Mi-Forms from Mi-Co provides an excellent digital writing solution. This solution is ideal for organizations that collect data in a wide variety of areas where they want to keep the hardware simple, unobtrusive, and highly mobile. The Digital Pen captures up to 50 pages of dense data that can then be uploaded to the Mi-Forms System for validation, verification and handwriting recognition. Business rules built into the Mi-Forms system greatly increase data quality and are easily configurable.

Reseller Advocate Magazine did an excellent review of the io Digital Pen. View the PDF.

Mi-Forms on Pocket PC

Many enterprises need to quickly and conveniently capture categorical data on the move—and the Pocket PC is an alternative platform for that task. When the application requires the type of direct feedback that can be achieved with the Tablet PC but in a smaller footprint, the Pocket PC often fits the bill. Using Pocket PCs with the Mi-Forms Software System can reduce the time spent on data management by electronically capturing the data, providing interactive business rules during data capture and uploading that information to existing databases. The Mi-Forms Software System running on the Pocket PC allows true flexibility for the enterprise. The organization can combine information captured on the Pocket PC with information captured with other Mi-Forms supported devices such as the Digital Pen and the Tablet PC. Contact Mi-Co today and let us show you that you can reduce your data capture costs without changing the way you do business.

Signature Capture with Interlink's ePad

Mi-Forms has been used to capture data such as signatures on the ePad-ink from Interlink Electronics, Inc. The captured signature is then connected to enterprise databases for significant cost savings over capture and storage of paper signatures.

One recent Mi-Co customer, a large hospital, is reducing their paper flow by over 8,400 pages per week and meeting regulatory HIPAA requirements from just one Mi-Forms application.

ePad-ink is used by dozens of companies, worldwide, to automate the signature processes associated with forms and applications in the healthcare, insurance, financial and government sectors. Millions of dollars are being saved every year by companies implementing electronic signature capture by eliminating the need for documents to be printed, scanned, indexed and stored.