HP and Nokia take forms on the road
HP and Nokia take forms on the road
Feb 4, 2005: HP and Nokia have created a joint initiative that will allow forms to be sent to mobile devices, where they can be filled in completely, and then sent back to the office for printing on paper as a hard copy.
The Mobile Forms Initiative aims to help businesses and public sector organisations to accelerate access to critical data as well, as well as reducing business costs related to data management.
HP's print-on-demand technology and Forms Automation Solution will be combined with the mobility of the Nokia Digital Pen and Nokia's mobile devices to provide paper-to-mobile workflow capabilities for communications usually captured solely on paper forms.
Eric Chaniot, vice president and general manager of Digital Pen and Paper Organisation at HP, said: "HP's vision is to make paper processes smarter by bridging the gap that exists between today's paper and digital worlds.
"By combining Nokia's strength in the mobility market and HP's expertise with digital pen and paper technology, we are providing customers with the ability to efficiently transform paper-based workflows to truly digital, mobile and virtual processes."
The initiative will feature an IT infrastructure solution ideal for industries that need real-time data transfers, such as healthcare, insurance, public safety and field services.
For example, emergency services could use the Mobile Forms Initiative to record patient information at an accident scene and have it instantly transferred to call centres in hospitals.
Jukka Hieta, the manager of mobile enhancements sales development at Nokia, added: "The Nokia Digital Pen and HP Forms Automation Solution are a perfect fit. Digital pen solutions are becoming increasingly mobile, and this collaboration brings great new opportunities to enterprise customers.
"Companies can obtain an easy way to modify and print digital forms, and immediately send them wirelessly to the company's back-end systems."
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