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Use IBM Lotus Forms on the cloud

Create a car repair application with Lotus Forms Turbo AMI on EC2

Sam Boucot (boucot@gmail.com), Consultant and writer, Freelance
Sam Boucot graduated with a B.S. in mathematics from the University of California in 1986 and has worked for many years as a business systems analyst on large, complex ERP applications at several Fortune 500 companies.
Aaron Olds (amolds@hotmail.com), Systems Engineer, Freelance
Aaron Olds graduated with a M.S. in computer science from Portland State University in 2004. He has worked as a systems engineer on large, complex enterprise applications at several Fortune 500 companies.

Summary:  IBM Lotus Forms help organizations of all sizes automate their business processes through data capture, review, approval, and submission of eForms. Lotus Forms can be run from the cloud, which significantly lowers the cost of ownership and dramatically increases scalability. In this tutorial, learn how to write a simple application that allows a small car repair company to track its customers using Lotus Forms, and then run it on the cloud using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). No prior cloud computing experience is necessary.

Date:  29 Jun 2010
Level:  Introductory
PDF:  A4 and Letter (1490 KB | 43 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Congratulations! You have experienced cloud computing by developing a Lotus Form on the cloud. Now you can automate your business processes with eForms that are easy to learn and simple to write. eForms can also be integrated with e-commerce products from Amazon, Google, SAP, and other technology heavyweights. You have saved your company time and money by tapping into the cloud.

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