Form.io: Simplifying the process of collecting, managing, and utilizing data for businesses of all sizes

Today’s digital businesses depend on effective data security, so it’s crucial to take precautions to prevent unauthorized access to websites and databases. One of Form.io’s primary features is data security, and Form.io-created web forms employ sophisticated user authentication. The company provides a platform that enables developers to rapidly build modern web and mobile applications. Its simple drag-and-drop interface allows users to create both forms and restful APIs in a single step. Its solutions sped up time to market for their web and mobile applications, significantly reduced development time and support costs, and improved quality. Form.io was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Travis Tidwell, CTO of Form.io, spoke exclusively to CIO Bulletin about how his company enables developers to quickly build modern web and mobile applications.

“We are proud that our company has become the most widely used and adopted standard for JSON powered forms within progressive data-driven applications with complex form-based workflows for enterprise applications.”

Interview Highlights

Q. What is the purpose of starting Form.io?

Form.io was founded and built with the mission of providing software developers with a capable and scalable software development platform to build their digital web forms and the APIs that are required on the backend to support them.

Form.io offers an innovative and highly differentiated technology solution to enterprise customers in every business vertical, including government agencies, healthcare, banking and financial services, insurance, legal, manufacturing, and many others.

Q. How has the company changed as time passed? What has the company contributed to the industry over the years?

Importantly, Form.io has not needed to pivot in any way from its original mission and value proposition.

Form.io was created with the vision of being a software development tool with a strong open source core to serve software developers all over the world in every business verticals who are building complex form-centric data collection applications with integrated workflows.

As the company has grown over the eight years of being in business, we have listened to the requirements of our customers to guide our solutions, but we have remained true to our original identity and mission. Among the many verticals Form.io now serves, we have seen a significant increase in the use of Form.io to modernize legacy applications in government, healthcare, and financial institutions.

Form.io is an Open Source Software solution at its core, and the company is fully committed to providing robust development solutions to the OSS community of software developers. We are proud that our company has become the most widely used and adopted standard for JSON powered forms within progressive data-driven applications with complex form-based workflows for enterprise applications.

Q. What is your strategy for innovation? And do your core values support this?

We like to adhere to the latest innovations coming out of the web community and adopt many of these standards as part of our core technology. Technologies such as TypeScript, ES6, and SASS, as well as modern application frameworks such as React, Angular, and Vue, do a lot to drive our strategic direction for innovation. Our core values are anchored around the Open Source community and the Standard Web community, which makes it so that our technology is a direct reflection of the latest trends to be introduced.

Q. How do you give your best to support the growth of executives and their companies?

Form.io works closely with all of our executive leaders within our customers, providing support and consultative guidance at all times to ensure their success with using the Form.io platform. Form.io reduces time to market and development costs, freeing up internal resources to focus on ore applications rather than forms and APIs, which can now be handled by non-technical users.

Q. How has innovation helped the company grow over the years?

Form.io has grown rapidly over the years by offering its clients distinctive and cutting-edge solutions that are provided to them in a way they desire to utilize it.

Q. Let’s talk about your offerings. What are your products and services, and how are they unique?

Form.io LLC’s platform allows users to easily create, manage, and integrate complex forms and data workflows into their applications without the need for extensive coding knowledge.

With Form.io, users can create dynamic and interactive forms with drag-and-drop functionality, conditional logic, validation rules, and more. The platform also supports complex data integrations with other systems, such as databases, CRMs, and marketing automation tools. Some of the key features of Form.io include data encryption, user authentication, API integrations, real-time data syncing, and customizable branding. The company offers both cloud-based and on-premises deployment options to meet the needs of various businesses and industries and all compliance regulations.

Form.io is a unique software development solution in several ways:

Rapid Form and Workflow Development: Form.io enables developers to create complex forms and data workflows quickly and easily using a drag-and-drop interface. This allows businesses to create and deploy custom forms and workflows without needing a lot of coding expertise.

Flexibility and Customization: Form.io allows users to create highly customized forms and workflows that can integrate with various data sources, including APIs, databases, and third-party software. The platform supports conditional logic, calculations, and validations and offers a wide range of customization options for the form’s layout and design.

Security: Form.io prioritizes data security and privacy. The platform offers robust security features such as data encryption, user authentication, and role-based access control, which are essential for businesses dealing with sensitive data.

Scalability: Form.io is designed to be scalable, making it suitable for businesses of all sizes. The platform offers both cloud-based and on-premises deployment options, allowing businesses to scale up or down as needed.

Integration: Form.io integrates with a wide range of third-party applications, including CRM, marketing automation, and project management software. This makes it easy to incorporate the platform into existing business workflows.

Overall, Form.io’s combination of rapid form and workflow development, flexibility and customization, security, scalability, and integration make it a unique software development solution for businesses looking to streamline their data collection and management processes.

Q. What are the advantages customers receive when choosing Form.io over its competitors?

Form.io customers receive an open-architected middleware software development platform solution that is deployed entirely within their own self-hosted on-prem or private cloud environments.

Form.io provides an easy-to-use front end UI for non-developers to dynamically update their forms and APIs without developer assistance, while providing the developers with an extendable, scalable solution that will never hit a limit.

Q. Would you like us to highlight something important happening in your company that we may have missed asking?

We are expanding our current platform capabilities to extend further into complex data management operations. Additionally, Form.io plans to leverage opportunities that are currently arising from emerging AI technologies and platforms.

About | Travis Tidwell

Travis Tidwell is the visionary Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Form.io. He has been developing advanced enterprise software solutions for over 25 years. In addition to being the individual creator of the Form.io platform, Mr. Tidwell has built numerous complex data management software applications using both Open Source Software (OSS) and proprietary or hybrid solutions.

Travis’s Open Source Software (OSS) contributions have provided him with significant notoriety, and he has accrued an impressive following within the GitHub, YouTube, and Drupal communities.

Mr. Tidwell can often be found giving presentations at conferences across the nation.

“With Form.io, users can easily create dynamic and interactive forms with drag-and-drop functionality, conditional logic, validation rules, and more.”