An Overview of Summit and DSF

Recently 4Point was able to participate in two conference events:Adobe Summit and Document Strategy Forum. These are really valuable events, both for us at 4Point and for our customers, because they help us to get a better understanding of how organizations are looking at their forms, documents and their digital transformation.

Summit

Adobe Summit 2022 was an excellent source of important information, updates and use cases that covered all of the Adobe Experience Cloud. Like the past two years it was a virtual event. The forms related sessions were very interesting, and I especially recommend reading more about CSU Fullerton’s Case Study on how they digitized the paper-based enrollment process for their students, and were able to realize cost and time savings for both the organization and for the students.

This is a great example of how organizations are making real change in the way they are supporting their users. This is also a great example of what we describe as “Forms Modernization”. It is the digital transformation of what are now paper based forms and turning them into a completely digital process that combines all of the business functions together in a way that makes it easier for the user and lower cost for the organization.

You can view the recording at CSU Fullerton’s Best-in-Class Digital Onboarding Solution (adobe.com). You will need to register for Summit, but it's free.

You can also read about the how CSU Fullerton changed their forms at CSU Fullerton routes 4K admin forms via Adobe Sign.

Document Strategy Forum 2022

This year we were very proud to be a  sponsor of the Document Strategy Forum. This event was an in-person event held in Chicago. It was a challenge for the organizers to arrange and hold the event and they did a fantastic job. I highly recommend this event for anyone involved in forms, document generation or paper processing.

DSF’22 brought together organizations from across North America and Europe to talk about forms, documents and even paper. I had the pleasure of presenting a session where I spoke about the importance of forms modernization, and how forms modernization can give you the opportunity to change the way you do business. The slides from my presentation can be downloaded below.

We also had a booth in the exhibit hall, which was a great opportunity for us to interact with our customers and new friends after so much time apart. We also co-sponsored the Ventanas Reception Experience with Adobe. This was a good time to connect with people and have more detailed conversations around the challenges they are facing by moving off of old systems to take advantage of new opportunities through Forms Modernization.

There was a general feeling and theme to a lot of the presentations and conversations. Organizations recognize they need to move away from paper documents to a more online and digital method of customer interaction and communication. But often the organizations don’t know what is possible. Many of our demonstrations helped to show people what you can do when you bring together online forms, dynamic documents, data integrations and digital signatures.You can see an example of the type of demonstrations we used in this video.

If you missed Summit or Document Strategy Forum and would like to discuss forms modernization with us, feel free to contact me at eric.stevens@4point.com.