Web forms gallery

frevvo customers have created so many interesting, useful and just cool forms. We thought it’d be great to showcase some of them especially since our partners have asked about them. Check out some of the cool examples in our new Web Forms Gallery.

Let us know if there are any that you particularly like or if there are any features you’d like to see demonstrated there.

EZ web sites with frevvo Live Forms Spaces

It’s always been easy to embed frevvo forms and workflows in your web pages. But some customers, especially SaaS customers don’t have a web site or don’t want to go through the hassle of creating one. Now, with frevvo’s brand new Spaces feature, you can create a professional looking web site in minutes with just a few clicks and add your forms and workflows to it.

See how easy it is: watch this 3 min video.

You can learn more in the documentation or, of course, sign up for a free account to try it out.

Pick Two

Sometimes we run into prospects who want us to do demos for them, provide customer support on the phone to help with POCs or answer questions, keep improving the product etc. all for $30/month, which is what some other products cost. Of course we can’t. Why not? As usual, Sheldon says it most eloquently.

Pick Two

Attaining all three is simply impossible. Our local coffee shop Willoughby’s sells a great product and has great service but the prices are high. It’s worth it to us. WalMart has decent products and great prices but I’m sure you’d agree that their service is terrible.

Which two did we choose? You guessed it: a fantastic product and great customer service … at a reasonable price. Thankfully for us, many many customers agree! I hope you will too.

Don’t stop me now – Google Doodle

Wow! It’s not often that our blog has personal items but today’s Google Doodle (Sep 6, 2011) is totally worth a look.

I loved Queen and Freddie Mercury was one of the most amazing talents I’ve ever seen. It’s great to see Google honor him on what would have been his 65th birthday. Dr. Brian May also guest posts a wonderful memorial on the Google Blog.

Like a great comet, he left a luminous trail which will sparkle for many a generation to come.

If you haven’t seen it already, go take a look now.

Delays due to Irene

We’re experiencing significant delays due to Hurricane Irene; power/phone/Internet to our main CT office is out. Most of our homes are in the same boat. We’re doing our best with alternate locations, cell cards etc. to respond to customer support, emails, phones etc. but it’s slow going. The frevvo SaaS service and customer installations remain unaffected by this.

We really appreciate your patience and hope we can get back to normal soon. Thanks to so many for your kind words.

A busy summer

At frevvo, we’ve had a very hectic summer. Mostly, we’ve been working on making frevvo Enterprise-grade [for a couple of huge customers we hope to announce soon]. Soon, customers will be able to:

  • Deploy frevvo on clustered servers for unlimited horizontal scaling and fault tolerance.
  • Employ separate roles for designing forms/workflows, publishing them from dev -> test -> staging -> production, and for viewing submissions.
  • Share forms and workflows across users/roles with varying sharing permissions.
  • Version their forms and workflows.
  • Create globally-available IT services/bindings that business users can simply use in their forms.
  • Create fully self-contained deployment artifacts that can be downloaded, saved to SVN repositories, and uploaded to any frevvo server/cluster without changes.
  • Deploy on Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and MySQL databases.
  • and many other new capabilities …
It’s going to be several months before these things are available but, in the meantime, we’ve also worked hard on performance (CPU & memory), reliability, and usability rather than new features. V4.1.5 (coming in September) will be our fastest and most reliable version and we hope you’ll be using it soon.

The simple stuff costs money too

Customers are always prioritizing where to put scarce investment capital. Should we invest in that new CRM system or should we create a new online portal or some other project. Most CIOs and IT department personnel are swamped with work and, therefore, tend to focus on the big stuff.

But … there’s a lot of money in the small stuff. We’ve been discovering this at many of our customers. For example, a major US University bought Live Forms for automating their student admissions process. Obviously, it’s a mission-critical thing for Universities – they had better be good at admitting students – and it’s a project slated to take many months.

Within 2 weeks of deploying Live Forms, one of their Departments wanted to create monthly surveys to collect student feedback. Now, normally this would mean either a paper-based survey or a programmer putting together each survey and providing a report of the results. They suddenly realized that they now had a new option. They created an account for the Department managers on the Live Forms server and pointed them to the tutorials. Within days, they were creating their own survey forms and exporting the results to Excel. It took less than five minutes of an expensive developer’s time. Less than a month after deploying Live Forms, they were already getting positive ROI from a simple application that they hadn’t even considered before.

It’s just one example out of many where customers are rapidly finding uses for frevvo and benefiting in days rather than months. Interested? Check out http://www.frevvo.com where you will find short videos demonstrating Live Forms or Contact Us for more details.

DEISER and Netkom: our newest partners

We’re delighted that DEISER (Spain) and Netkom (Switzerland) have become the newest companies to partner with frevvo. We’re excited about these new partnerships and about expanding our ability to deliver great solutions to customers all over the world.

We take great pride in working closely with world-class organizations to provide customers with the best possible service and support. If you want to learn more about frevvo, check out the partner pages on our web site and contact our partners. We’re certain you’ll be a satisfied customer.

Downloading and trying frevvo in-house (free 30-day trials)

frevvo offers 30-day free trials of the software (SaaS & In-house, Confluence & standalone). For the in-house version, you have to register at www.frevvo.com, activate your account, download the software and generate a free trial license.

See this [1 min] video if you aren’t sure how to generate a trial license:

How do I signup for SaaS workflows on frevvo.com?

Obviously, we need to make it easier :-) but, as of now, here’s what you have to do to sign up for and start using workflows on frevvo.com:

  1. Sign up on frevvo.com
  2. Activate your account
  3. Setup your users and roles

Here’s a short video (2.5 min) that shows how to do this.

 

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