Has anyone had success standing up hundreds of variable data forms? Our company is in the insurance space. We are modernizing our business products, which includes hundreds of variable data forms. We're finding the form development process to be the largest bottleneck in our project. We currently use a PaaS product that allows for the development of the forms themselves in a "studio" product, which includes both form design and the creation of the fields where variable data will be inserted. It also has a "workbench" product where the data models can be programmatically mapped to the forms to be populated during the execution of a workflow. While the forms are primarily based on standards, we still invest a lot of product and business analysis effort to determine the requirements for each form (e.g. a certain field is populated if the data in another field is "X", etc.). The aforementioned development is the other part of the process where we log a lot of hours. We've reached out to our peers at other companies as well as insurance core system providers for insight, but most solutions are "throw more people at it." We have resource (financial and human) constraints, so we've tried to optimize our processes, KT staff who may have an aptitude that fits the products, etc. but to no avail.
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Hi. We had chance to work in the recent past on a Leasing/Lending platform made of dozens of interlinked business processes and hundreds of data entry forms. We managed it by using a low-code development platform. You mentioned that you are using a PaaS to design you new forms: is sound like you are already using a kind of No-Code software to speed up design but you are still slow when it comes to presentation logic and data integration. A Low-Code platform like ours could be useful to address this issues. On the other extent, if your point is that you don't want to redesign and implement the hundred forms because you feel it is a waste of time... you could think on some kind of agentic automation based on AI and/or conversational human interaction to collect the information without having to design the data entry forms.
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Define the Data Structure & Requirements, then identify the different form types and variations that you need. Ensure you standardize common fields to reduce redundancy and note data points that are static vs. dynamic. You can use a template engine like adobe or Microsoft to create a template with placeholders for variable fields to automate data population and form generation, and improve a quality assurance process.