Dear Experts,
We are a petrochemical manufacturing company having around 1000 users. For most of employee relations there are a number of paper forms that goes through approval levels before being actioned. For example, for renewing an employee driving license, the employee downloads the MS Word form from DMS system -> manually fills in the information -> gets the approval of his manager -> approval from HR -> then submits the request to the Government Relations dept. We are looking at ways to automate this procedure with applications based on NW Portal.
Some of our paper based applications touch the backend ERP system but a majority of them dont.
I would like to hear from you on the best possible solution to automate more than 50 forms like the one mentioned above.
We have had some brainstorming sessions on going with Adobe Interactive Forms, Webdynpro Java. I would like to hear how SOA can help (I have very little knowledge of SOA).
Regards,
Mohammad.