Arch is well into preparations for its annual autumn conference.  Hosted by Adobe at their prestigious Regent’s Park London office, the event builds on the successful formula of previous conferences with the theme of “Exploiting Adobe technologies in SAP” – and an emphasis on business cases and real world-case studies.  Those organisations who intend to carry out reference visits as part of their evaluation of SAP interactive forms will find the conference of particular value.

Presentations already lined up include; an analysis by SAP of the importance of Adobe technology to its customers, an interesting view of new applications beyond forms examining mobile communication, as well as the results of a cost-benefit study evaluating Interactive Forms, commissioned by a major UK organisation in partnership with SAP UK and Adobe Europe. 

Customer case-studies planned include the real world experience of Amey Plc and the UK Department of Communities and Local Government.

The date for this session is Thursday October 8th 2009.  Invitations will be sent out soon.  

The day before, Wednesday 7th October 2009, will see Arch presenting at SAP UK’s Clockhouse Place office, as part of a morning event on HR Solutions.  Andy Gardner, Head of Technology at Arch, will be presenting the business case for Interactive forms within HR and there will be a customer presentation from Camelot Group who have successfully implemented a number of HR processes this year using Arch Forms Lifecycle Manager (FLM ™)

Details from John Poole, Business Development Manager at Arch: john.poole@arch.co.uk

On 16th July, in co-operation with Adobe, Arch ran a highly successful combined event which included the first FLM user group.

We were pleased to welcome delegates from 14 organisations and had 30 attendees for our morning briefing session on SAP Interactive forms by Adobe (SIFbA).  The emphasis was on exploiting and implementing SIFbA solutions and presentations included Adobe’s vision for the future use of the technology.  We were also pleased to welcome our guest speaker, John Burton, Project Owner at the Department of Communities and Local Government. The feedback was very positive: “the session proved useful and provided great insight into the solutions available” (UK Police service attendee).

The afternoon saw the gathering of representatives from the FLM customer base. This was a useful exchange between Arch management and FLM users. It was “great to listen to other company’s views and learn from their experience”(Services plc).

We were able to explore how to facilitate collaboration and the sharing of forms and methods, and we’ve take away 2 main things from this group; firstly, we’ve now established a new user forum on our FLM Connect site to allow customer input and discussions, as “FLMConnect will help to create a cohesive group and give quick opportunities to interact with other users”(UK Local Authority attendee). Secondly, by the end of August we will be setting out guidelines to allow customers to share forms.