Performance booster

Our company is a group of highly professional electronic engineers that specialize in lighting systems. We build and design lighting projects ranging from one bedroom apartments to stadiums. Another important aspect of our business is consulting and training and this is where we wanted to step up our game. At same point it has become a real pain to manage internal training for our staff and external training for customers and gather feedback. The management has decided that it would be more practical to invest into PDF Share Forms rather than hire more office people to admin training scheduling and documentation. We also plan to implement this solution in other aspect of the business in the near future. Thanks to PDF Share Forms we managed to automate a lot of processes and put them in one solid workflow. Trainees can easily access training application forms in our SharePoint environment or on our website if they are external users, fill in the forms where they can see the availability of training sessions and book dates. After the training they automatically receive feedback forms that then are routed to trainers for assessment and reporting for higher managers. This really helped to avoid scheduling conflicts, monitor workload for trainers and asses their performance and also gave us a lot of insight on how we can improve our training practices. Cons: Not everything was out of the box and it took some tinkering to set SP workflows and add some custom code. Luckily all tools are there and the support team was very helpful.

Lacking in some key features

We were using pdf share forms to build custom Forms in SharePoint to drive business processes. We were trying to replace the infopath custom forms we previously had

Pros

The product is fairly easy to use without needing to have developer level experience. It makes building custom forms in SharePoint quick.

Cons

There are some basic features like people picker that are not available or are very lacking in comparison to competitor products and out of the box SharePoint forms.

Transform tedious forms management into streamlined process

We've been running PDF Share Forms for some months now and overall we are very happy with the service. It's pretty easy to use as long as you spend a little time thinking it through when setting it up and having a clear vision of what your document management should look like.

Pros

Constantly update the program Free 30 days trial with full features and tech support Option to use other documents formats as the base for future forms

Cons

Would love more flexibility in the designer Messy guides-and-manual section on the site. Difficult to navigate

All I expected and more

We managed to improve handling of order forms significantly with this product. The idea was to connect forms to SQL database where we store all our SKUs and let our customer fill in forms and pick exactly what they need from dropdowns populated from SQL

Pros

Work with external data sources. We really needed just one - SQL database

Cons

None in our case