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Aquiller endorsed by Adobe

Vanessa Smith — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:00:57 +0000

Aquiller, the new out-of-the-box document and contract generation system from Arch, has been chosen by Adobe to be promoted on its website as an endorsed by Adobe application.

This was decided by a panel of senior Adobe executives and outside experts after an evaluation board in Amsterdam in June.

A profile of Aquiller will be created by Adobe and will be featured in its new Application café on its global website.

We are delighted by this endorsement of our newest product and we look forward to Aquiller being equally strongly recognized by customers in 2010.

Standing room only at Adobe break-out session at the SAP World Tour 2010

Vanessa Smith — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:07:44 +0000

On July 8th Arch were guests of SAP and Adobe at the UK World Tour 2010 at the ICC Birmingham.
Arch helped man the Adobe stand and delivered several interesting demonstrations of SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe.   There was also considerable interest in the work Arch have done using Adobe Flex for mobile device applications.
The highlight of the show was the Adobe, SAP Global partner break-out session where 3 Arch customers kindly participated in a discussion forum chaired by Arch CEO, Henry Blythe.   Liz Cocker of Camelot, John Burton of CLG and Simon Kaine of Amey Plc all shared their experiences with a packed audience of over 120.   In fact there were some delegates unable to get into the auditorium as it was standing room only!
Andy Gardner, our Head of Technology was on the panel and the customers described why they decided to invest in SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, how their projects went and how their organisations are benefiting.   Areas covered included rationalising Employee contract production plus wider HR processes and strategic timesheets improving Amey’s billing.
Questions from the floor prompted an interesting discussion on models to calculate the return on investment from these types of initiatives.   There was a generous round of applause to conclude.
Further information on these topics is available from John Poole, Business Development Manager at Arch: john.poole@arch.co.uk

Arch begin organising next exciting Adobe technology in SAP event for autumn 2010

Vanessa Smith — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:58:52 +0000

The 2010 Arch Autumn briefing sessions will build on the highly successful formula of previous combined events featuring a morning briefing with the theme: “Exploiting Adobe technologies in SAP” – emphasising business cases and real world-case studies. This is to be followed in the afternoon by an update for FLM users. Those organisations who intend to carry out reference visits as part of their evaluation of SAP interactive forms will find the conference of particular value.
Presentations in planning include new applications beyond forms examining correspondence generation, mobile communication and security, as well as a look at Aquiller, Arch’s new SAP integrated correspondence generation product. Aquiller is to be marketed by Adobe.
As always, the popular customer case-studies will include the real world experience of at least 2 innovative Arch FLM clients.
The afternoon’s gathering of representatives from the expanded FLM customer base will get updates on new software features plus time to explore how to facilitate collaboration and the sharing of forms and methods.
Details from John Poole, Business Development Manager at Arch: john.poole@arch.co.uk

Independent FLM User group to be launched

Vanessa Smith — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:56:58 +0000

At the last FLM User meeting in June 2010 it was decided the time had come for there to be an independent FLM user group.
To begin with our local and central government customers will meet to start the process. Gloucestershire County Council and Cardiff City Council have kindly offered to host and chair the new group. The planning meeting is to be held in Gloucester and will set up the essential structures and themes which will include how to share knowledge and methods between customers.
It was felt that the public sector group could do this quickly and effectively as there is an established culture of collaboration. After this the user group will be opened up to the wider customer-base across all industry sectors.

Arch organise exciting Adobe technology in SAP event.

Mitch Hagerty — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:49:26 +0000

24^th June 2010
Hosted by Adobe at their prestigious Regent’s Park London office, this event builds on the successful formula of previous combined events. It features our morning briefing for prospective users of FLM with the theme of “Exploiting Adobe technologies in SAP” – emphasizing business applications and real world-case studies. This is followed in the afternoon by a briefing to the FLM user group. Those organisations who intend to carry out reference visits as part of their evaluation of SAP interactive forms will find the conference of particular value as there will be ample opportunity over lunch to mix with existing users of the software.

Presentations already lined up include; an interesting view of new applications beyond forms. Under “New Horizons” there will be a launch presentation of Arch Aquiller, our new SAP Integrated document production system followed by an overview of how customers are using SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe.

Customer case-studies include the real world experience of Informa who implemented a powerful “Starters, Movers, Leavers” suite of HR forms using FLM in-house in just 5 months and Camelot have used FLM to dramatically improve their HR processes.

The afternoon’s gathering of over 30 representatives from the expanding FLM customer base will be briefed on the new release FLM 295, now shipped, along with Arch Aquiller. There will be time to explore how to enable collaboration between organisations.

Details from John Poole, Business Development Manager at Arch: john.poole@arch.co.uk

Linklaters chose FLM

Mia Masri — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:44:00 +0000

Arch is delighted to announce that Linklaters Business Services have chosen Forms Lifecycle Manager to enable their implementation of SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe. FLM will be used in Linklaters’ HR department as well as to support even more streamlined processes in the partnership’s business operations.

Linklaters is one of the leading premium global law firms who undertake assignments for the world’s leading companies, financial institutions and governments, helping them to achieve their objectives by solving their most complex and important legal issues.

Simeon Brewer, Enterprise Architect, commented: “The Arch FLM product allows us to develop SAP Interactive Forms quickly, and with the skill sets we have in house. We look forward to working with Arch in the future as we roll out forms across our Business Services functions.”

Adobe Award for FLM

Mia Masri — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:17:50 +0000

Adobe have made the following press release:

Our congratulations to Arch, Adobe’s EMEA Solution Partner Recognition winner for the third quarter of 2009!

Arch was chosen for developing their own SAP Interactive “forms accelerator”— the powerful Forms Lifecycle Manager (FLM) product that gives users a robust and rich framework in which to exploit SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe. FLM allows for the fast creation of SAP Interactive Forms with little need for coding, providing native links from SAP to other Adobe products not contained with the SAP forms package, as well as additional controls not provided with out-of-the-box solutions, such as audit control. Forms created using Arch’s FLM product also can be copied across multiple customers with little rework, which Arch has demonstrated by launching a forms-sharing portal for public sector customers. Not only has Arch been instrumental in working with Adobe and SAP to win business, but they have also shown that they can bring business to Adobe through their own sales efforts. FLM will develop further in 2010 as the basis for Arch’s Correspondence Generator for SAP which will exploit Flex as a front end for a truly engaging user experience.

Henry Blythe, CEO of Arch commented: “I am delighted to hear that we have won this accolade which is the second award for FLM. It reflects both the success of our product and the hard work of everyone at Arch. I would like to take this opportunity to thank both Adobe and SAP for their continuing support and partnership which has allowed us to grow our business and continue to deliver great projects for our customers. This ends a tremendous 2009 for Arch and we look forward to an even more successful 2010” .

Demand for FLM drives Arch growth

Mia Masri — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:10:13 +0000

Arch is once again expanding its technical team and is looking to recruit a Graduate Developer to join their Scottish office on the Stirling University Innovation Park.

Arch is the premier company in the implementation of SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe and is the creator of the multi-award winning and market leading application, Forms Lifecycle Manager (FLM™). FLM is already being adopted by, amongst others, Camelot, Amey, Anglian Water, Linklaters, Informa as well as several central and local government bodies.

This new position offers great potential to a highly talented individual to work as a key part of Arch’s technical team, to develop applications both in line with company strategy and to meet the emerging needs of its clients, as well as working closely with the consulting arm of the firm to produce bespoke customer applications and provide customer support.

Arch to enter Dynamic Enterprise Publishing market with FLM-CG

Mia Masri — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:17:09 +0000

Arch announced today that it will enter the fast growing Dynamic Enterprise Publishing (DEP) market with its product Correspondence Generator or FLM-CG. FLM-CG exploits the technical infrastructure of the company’s award-winning product FLM™ and Adobe Air as well as SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, to deliver a unique dynamic enterprise publishing product for the SAP marketplace.

Correspondence Generator combines the usability of Adobe Flex-based Air interface and tight integration with SAP applications to make creating SAP-based correspondence and documents both straightforward and secure.

FLM-CG will ship to existing FLM customers in October 2009 and go on general release in January 2010. It will be demonstrated at Arch’s Autumn Conference on the 8th October to be held in Adobe’s offices in Central London.

To register for the conference or more information please email john.poole@arch.co.uk or call +44 20 8987 0425 to speak to John directly.

For more information on the DEP market please follow this link:

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS21970309

Exciting Content for 2009 Autumn Conferences

Mia Masri — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:38:50 +0000

Arch is well into preparations for its annual autumn conference. Hosted by Adobe at their prestigious Regent’s Park London office, the event builds on the successful formula of previous conferences with the theme of “Exploiting Adobe technologies in SAP” – and an emphasis on business cases and real world-case studies. Those organisations who intend to carry out reference visits as part of their evaluation of SAP interactive forms will find the conference of particular value.

Presentations already lined up include; an analysis by SAP of the importance of Adobe technology to its customers, an interesting view of new applications beyond forms examining mobile communication, as well as the results of a cost-benefit study evaluating Interactive Forms, commissioned by a major UK organisation in partnership with SAP UK and Adobe Europe.

Customer case-studies planned include the real world experience of Amey Plc and the UK Department of Communities and Local Government.

The date for this session is Thursday October 8th 2009. Invitations will be sent out soon.

The day before, Wednesday 7th October 2009, will see Arch presenting at SAP UK’s Clockhouse Place office, as part of a morning event on HR Solutions. Andy Gardner, Head of Technology at Arch, will be presenting the business case for Interactive forms within HR and there will be a customer presentation from Camelot Group who have successfully implemented a number of HR processes this year using Arch Forms Lifecycle Manager (FLM ™)

Details from John Poole, Business Development Manager at Arch: john.poole@arch.co.uk