PaxForms, Paxonix Data Integration Server and Paxonix Business Rules Engine
Often getting a branding or packaging project started means filling out a form. That project could be anything from a new package design, to something as simple as a label change, or even as major as a new product launch. Typically, these efforts involve the sharing, review and approval of structured information by multiple people inside and outside your company—frequently on a global basis. Just as often the information necessary to move your project along will reside in multiple systems in your company's computing infrastructure. Forms kick off, and then drive, key business processes in your company on a daily basis.
PaxForms are a more efficient and easier to use form. They are intelligent. Meaning they understand your business rules and automatically understand what actions to automate based on those rules. They can be integrated with various computing platforms in your company to both extract data as well as report back to them. PaxForms connect people, systems, processes and data with your business rules to accelerate time to market.
PaxForms work with the Paxonix Data Integration (PDIS) Server and the Paxonix Business Rules Engine to make your organization more nimble and less error-prone.
PaxForms are also intelligent because of the easy, intuitive way they interact with you, the user. Here are a few examples of what PaxForms are designed to "know:"
- Which internal computing systems to extract data from in order to pre-populate your forms
- What people in your company must be included in approval routes for a particular change
- How to eliminate the need for paper-based job bags, job folders, creative work orders, email route slips, job ticket systems, etc.
- How to eliminate local databases that have previously tracked requests on a stand alone or local basis
- What actions should take place to initiate an activity and in what order
- Automated delegation rules
- What packaging, labels, redlines, marketing collateral or product specifications are associated with a change
- Automated links to associated reference materials
- Automated links to external websites (if needed)
- Automatic support of group assigned tasks for review
Paxonix Solution Engineers, all grounded in Six Sigma processes, will help you rapidly create intuitive, easy —to-use intelligent forms to initiate, streamline and improve any or all of the tasks associated with the creation and development of packaging or branding projects. They do this according to your business rules… not ours.
Paxonix data Integration Server
The Paxonix Data Integration Server (PDIS) helps you synchronize business information in different applications on diverse computing platforms and route information between applications. It facilitates the sharing of information between applications resulting in streamlined workflows and less need for human input.
For example, the PDIS will initiate a "conversation" between itself and legacy systems — such as a system you use to generate new SKUs. It will ask for all new SKUs and then automatically create a PaxForm to kick off activities associated with all the packaging or marketing promotions needed to support the launch of this new product.
Paxonix Business Rules Engine
The Paxonix Business Rules Engine (PBRE) works with PaxForms and the Paxonix Data Integration Server to enhance organizational agility. Your company has many rules it must follow in order to complete tasks and remain in compliance with a wide range of regulations — from Sarbanes Oxley to federal food and drug requirements.
These rules might be as easy as "no brand marketing programs can be approved by management until they have undergone legal review." Or they can be far more complex. In either case, they are the foundation of many mission-critical actions taken daily by your company.
The PBRE is fully customized to support and enforce those rules. It does not change the way you do business, it merely helps you do business faster, with fewer opportunities for miscommunication or error.
It capabilities extend from simple conditions that fuel the execution of linear activities all the way up to complex rules nested within one another in "if this then that" fashion. Our rules engine understands the real-time dynamics of your business processes then optimizes those process flows and decisions.
Powering the brand marketing and packaging processes in your company with the Paxonix Business Rules Engine will help you manage or avoid bottlenecks, anticipate fluctuating demands, identify the availability of resources, and handle updates to policies and practices.
Benefits of PaxForms, Paxonix Business Rules Engine and Paxonix Integration Server
- Accelerate projects by streamlining data capture, information sharing and approval processes
- Standardize business processes for greater accuracy and less exception handling
- Reduce data entry and human error
- Deliver complete information faster to key decision makers
- Ensure the security of your proprietary documents and business processes
- Support digital signatures mandates for guaranteed regulatory compliance
- Easy repurposing of PaxForms saves time and effort while enforcing best practices
- Easily integrates to legacy applications, off the shelf ERP and other business applications.
