January 28 2004
SBA's Business Gateway's Solution Architecture Relies on the "E-Forms for
E-Gov" Pilot (led by Fenestra's CEO) and its List of Components
GERMANTOWN, Md -- Componenttechnology.org, a meeting place to foster an emerging
technology components marketplace for eGovernment, cites the E-Forms for E-Gov
Pilot (chaired by Fenestra's CEO) as a premier example of collaboration with
value. The solutions architecture for the Small Business Administration's Business
Gateway relies on the "E-Forms for E-Gov Pilot: and its list of components (see
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/gtob/compliance.htm
).
E-Forms components recommended by the E-Forms for E-Gov pilot include:
- E-Forms Authoring Component: Allows a non-programmer to define the meta-data
which comprises an e-form, including presentation, content, structure, and
behavior. Includes a user-interface that allows people to design e-forms.
- E-Forms Generator Component: Builds e-forms automatically from existing
meta-data. In some scenarios e-forms do not need to be manually designed with
the authoring component - instead, they can be generated automatically from
existing meta-data.
- E-Forms User Agent Component: Provides a user-interface that allows a respondent
to create the response dataset for the e-form. Also known as a "form fill"
component. Supports filling forms, signing forms, and submitting forms.
- E-Forms Web Broker Component: Translates the meta-data contained in an e-forms
document into standard HTML and serves it up via a standard web server to
the standard web browsers. This serves as an alternative to an E-Forms User
Agent, because it allows the standard web browser to serve as the user-interface.
- E-Forms Catalog Component: Serves as a registry for published e-forms, and
includes respondent profile information so that respondents can find forms
which apply to them.
- E-Forms Schema Registry Component: Serves as a registry for the response
dataset schemas used by e-forms. Facilitates schema reuse and harmonization,
and facilitates direct information exchange (since exchange uses the same
schemas).
- E-Forms Submission Server Component: Serves as a collection point for submitted
e-forms, and routes (and possibly reformats) the submissions to appropriate
back-end processing systems. Maintains submission status and history.
- E-Form Authentication Component: Authenticates e-forms respondents and their
signatures.
- E-Forms Workflow Component: Performs standard workflow management for e-forms
documents, including routing, approval, etc.
"No available e-forms solution today segments its software into all of these
components, but the components presented here offer a way to assess the types
of services that can be provided within specific solutions," Rick Rogers claimed
when submitting the final report to the Federal CIO Council last fall. The Componenttechnology.org
Quarterly Conference on January 26, 2004, will explore the impact of these components
as part of its agenda. See http://www.componenttechnology.org
for details.
About Fenestra Technologies: Fenestra researches, designs and deploys practical and turnkey solutions for
highly complex content problems. Using a "triage" approach, the firm deepens
feature sets and accelerates faster implementation cycles.
Core competencies include forms creation and processing, data collection and
validation, complex typography formatting, and the creation of dynamic,
scalable and flexible data management solutions for both electronic and
paper purposes.
The U.S. Census Bureau continues to partner with Fenestra (since the early
‘90’s), and companies including IBM, ExxonMobil, and Advanced Productivity
Software have also retained the firm for specialty expertise.
Contact:
Fenestra Technologies Corporation
Jane O. Smith, 301/916-8800 x 206
jane@fenestra.com
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