Formera, The Leading Cloud-Based Data Management Solution

 

Towards the great digital transformation, organizations rely heavily on the ability to access and analyze more data than ever before to create a foundation of intelligence that is so important to enrich strategic decision-making processes. Cloud-based data management platforms are here to ensure the organization’s staff has the right data to improve visibility, reliability, security, and scalability.

What is Formera?

Formera is a leading provider of cloud-based form-building services, data management, and data assessment solutions. Since its founding, Formera has been on the main mission of empowering the communities with the best and most user-friendly data management web application. Today, thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations in 20+ countries use Formera cloud data management services.

The platform is introduced to the customers as a SaaS Software-as-a-Service solution. Customers can easily access the web application of Formera via the internet browsers on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. The platform provides all services of collecting, organizing, protecting, and storing an organization’s data so it can be visualized and analyzed for better business decisions.

Formera users can benefit from advanced features such as:

• Easy-to-use forms and databases builders.
• Multiple data collection tools.
• Comprehensive monitoring and controlling dashboards.
• Tracking sheets to ensure data accuracy, reliability, and integrity.
• Powerful alarming system for more effective data management operations.
• The most reliable data validation and cleansing tools.
• Advanced data assessment solutions
• Dynamic reports capabilities to reduce reporting time to the minimum.
• Permissions and accessibility levels management modules.
• Data libraries Importing.
• Integration with Elasticsearch engine.

Formera also offers its powerful application programming interface API for development and business integration purposes.

Supported Sectors

Formera serves a wide range of multiple domains and sectors, such as:

• Healthcare
• Protection
• Education
• Documentation
• Case Management
• NGO Management
• Capacity Building Studies
• Humanitarian Efforts

Data Collection

No need for database design knowledge, Formera provides easy to use drag-and-drop interface that empowers you to build professional forms and collect basic and advanced types of information. Use a desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile phone to collect data easily even if the device is offline, the data will be sent instantly by auto-synchronization after the device connects to the network again.

Formera enables you to:

• Build complex data structures.
• Break down data by each form and its attributes.
• Define and validate data instantly.

Data Management

Formera empowers your operations by advanced administrative processes throughout the life cycle of data. By using Formera you can interpret your captured data, even in the case of a large number of submissions, you can easily manage them and get full information about all user’s submissions. Sort your data, and put it in order, organize it in groups, view and arrange your data columns.

A variety of built-in filtering options are provided, use simple and advanced filters, or build your custom logical filters and configure the criteria to meet exactly your needs. Review data by approvers to decide whether to approve or reject collected data. Let your team collaborate on data by posting comments and replies. Formera makes it easy to manage permissions too. Control how users access your data by creating RBAC-based profiles for them.

Data Visualization and Dynamic Reporting

With Formera, you can customize the reports the way you need, it is simple, flexible, and effective. Using Kibana tool that provides amazing features that support data visualization through dynamic and user-friendly interfaces, and by employing the Elasticsearch engine, which is characterized by its great capabilities to process big data streams, Formera empowers its users with a powerful data visualization system that provides huge possibilities related to preparing and displaying dynamic and customizable reports, starting from the processing of submissions data sent by online web forms and mobile application.

On Formera platform, you can:

• Use logic filters to get just the information you need.
• Let users create custom filters in reports and find specific records.
• Export your reports as CSV files.
• Create aggregation functions such as SUM, COUNT, and more.
• Add charts to your reports to visualize results.
• Display data on detailed geographical maps.
• Data will be displayed depending on its geographical location so you can view the submission’s location as data points.
• Use duplicate reports to find duplicated data, in order to obtain clean, zero-repeat data, reliable in statistics.
• View form’s built-in dashboard to monitor collection process, approvals, and more.

Alarming System

The powerful alarming system of Formera will track your customized critical cases, your specific indicators, or certain actions, and will alarm you once happened. Build customized alarms, select the reference form, which action will fire it, after how many times it should hit, the users included in the monitoring, and the recipients’ emails.

Content-based alarm enables you to control the delivery of alarms based on input fields’ values. Combine your multiple fields’ values to build your complex alarm logic.

Assessments

Formera makes the accomplishment of assessments management operations a delightful and worthful experience. Save your time on assessment forms building, exams delivery, marking, and results analysis by benefiting from the great features that Formera platform provides.

• Assessment forms creation
  • Advanced workflows.
  • Wide range of questioning types.
  • Auto-scoring of complex results.
  • Supporting international standards like IMS QTI and Rest API.
  • Assessment scheduling through the control dashboard.
• Exam delivery
  • Our cloud-based assessment service is reliable, always available, and ready to deliver whatever kind of exams, with confidence.
  • Offer offline delivery, offline assessment and results generating, and auto-synchronization when back online.
  • Highest level of security and data privacy.
• Marking and analytics
  • Data streams directly into Formera analytics dashboards and reporting tools.
  • Multiple types of scores reporting.
  • Sending results data to external systems via powerful API.

Tracking Sheets

Customize your own tracking sheet, it is fully adjustable in Formera, whether you’re tracking an attendance sheet, following project tasks, or making a distribution tracking plan. Tracking the operational procedures is an extremely tedious task, to make the process easier use our customizable tracking sheet, and select the time interval among hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or non-periodic.

Lookup your data from a reference form, then add the fields that fit your tracking process, all the fields can be adjusted to be suitable for your tracking procedures. Collaborate with your users by filling out the tracking sheet based on its period. Save your time by assigning values to a bulk of records.

Security and Risk Governance at Formera

Formera’s top priority is to protect the data of the customers and the privacy of the platform users. The company has big investments in the most suitable data protection resources and it implements the most advanced security measures and controls to ensure that the platform is always able to serve our customers without any interruption. So, the assessment services, data management systems, and data storage solutions are all designed to protect the users’ data and to introduce the highest level of security.

At Formera, we established highly skilled application security and operational security teams with the main responsibility of developing and managing the entire security and risk governance program across the whole company hierarchy and its products and services infrastructures.

Best Development Practices

Formera development team ensures that all coding and new features developing activities go through all security and functionality tests and analyses on staging procedures before being added to the final product, to ensure customer data privacy and to ensure that our customers’ accounts be highly secure and isolated.

Compliance with GDPR

Formera is completely compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR of the European Union, ensuring that the data of our customers are fully protected. With Formera you are able to choose to store your data in the servers run by Microsoft Azure Cloud or Google Cloud Platform and located specifically in the European Union.