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Comparison of Benefits and Drawbacks of Cloud Environments for Document Assembly

GeneralBy The Team at TheFormTool August 9, 2024

Benefits and Drawbacks of Cloud Environments for Document Assembly Overview Cloud-based document assembly and automation solutions present a compelling option for modern businesses, given the numerous advantages they offer in terms of accessibility, scalability, security, and cost management. However, these benefits come with certain challenges that organizations must carefully consider before making a decision and…

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Twelve Recommendations of Vendors That Take Security Seriously

SecurityBy The Team at TheFormTool July 13, 2024

Vendors That Take Security Seriously, Twelve Recommendations Note: We make these recommendations strictly as a satisfied customer. There is no compensation of any sort involved. Rackspace Technology cloud and dedicated servers https://www.rackspace.com/ Sucuri firewalls and attack mitigation https://sucuri.net/ Cloudflare content delivery and security https://www.cloudflare.com/ Bitdefender device security https://www.bitdefender.com/ MalwareBytes device security https://www.malwarebytes.com/ DuckDuckGo private, non-tracking…

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Security Considerations of Artificial Intelligence

SecurityBy The Team at TheFormTool July 9, 2024

The Security Considerations of Artificial Intelligence Two Uses to Avoid For two reasons we strongly discourage others from using AI for any purpose where disclosure of sensitive information is possible. AI currently requires that the data be uploaded to a processor’s cloud where it is extensively analyzed by the processor. That’s problematic. Worse, uploaded material…

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Passwords and Email Addresses

SecurityBy The Team at TheFormTool June 19, 2024

We use and recommend three levels of password and email address security for both personal and business use. Level One, the most sophisticated, is for the most sensitive business, financial, identity, and personal health information. The second level is for sites and accounts that are worth protecting because they collect limited amounts of non-critical information.…

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How Customers Make Money Creating Documents for Others

EconomicsBy The Team at TheFormTool May 1, 2024

Making Money Creating Documents for Others A growing number of our customers are generating revenues and significant income by using their libraries of forms to create on-demand private label documents for others. An example is an insurance firm that requires some of its documents to both bear its branding but also that they must be…

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Our first price increases in nearly five years

GeneralBy The Team at TheFormTool April 29, 2024

We’ve announced our first price increases in nearly five years Two products will increase and six will remain the same On May 15th annual subscriptions to Doxserá will increase to $169, a little more than one-half the inflation since its last price increase nearly five years ago. Subscriptions to DB User will increase to $199,…

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Inflation: Why Does It Hurt So Much If It’s Better?

EconomicsBy The Team at TheFormTool April 21, 2024

The Forecast It was in January, 2021 that we first forecast that inflation would need to total 35% over time to fully offset the amount of new paper currency printed to pay for the increase in federal spending that had accelerated the year before. Since then prices of typical baskets of goods have increased about…

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What Is Your Social Security Number?

GeneralBy The Team at TheFormTool April 5, 2024

What Is Your Social Security Number? The codes that we commonly refer to as our SSAN, EIN or KTN aren’t numbers as much as each is a textual code. In the case of the SSAN the code itself is composed of three separate numerals that once had real meaning. While Cambridge English Dictionary primarily defines…

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The Ten Commandments of Document Assembly & Automation

ProductivityBy The Team at TheFormTool March 9, 2024

Ten Commandments for Effective Document Automation These are the two most important rules for effective for document assembly and automation I. Optimize Each Question to Maximize Benefits When creating forms for ourselves or for others we go to great lengths to reduce the total number of Questions to the absolute minimum while editing each to…

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Naming Our Newest Technology

Futurist, General, ProductivityBy The Team at TheFormTool March 5, 2024

. We’ve named the new Artificial Intelligence helper in the Diagnostic Portal our Diagnostic Assistant. We’re starting to think this technology may have a real future helping people filter huge amounts of information to find the specific bits and pieces they’re looking for. Our Diagnostic Assistant is being used by customers every day, is learning…

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