Inforama

Hi Vikram,

I'll start by outlining the differences between the Community and Enterprise editions if I may as this will lead naturally to your other questions.

4. The community edition of Inforama is designed to run on a single machine. The Studio allows users to create projects, connect to datasources, create letter templates, import Acrobat forms, generate documents, carry out mailshots as well as other features.

The Enterprise edition is designed to run on a central server. Projects created in the Studio can be deployed to the server where an entire enterprise can access it's functionality. This can be via a browser or integrated with other applications via web service interfaces.

1. In order to run Inforama Enterprise you will need a JEE compliant server such as Apache Tomcat or JBoss.

2. Currently you do need your own database to run Inforama but in the upcoming version 1.2 you can run it from a spreadsheet. It would be difficult to embed a database in the application as it would be difficult to predict the needs of individual businesses.

It will work with any database - you need to have the JDBC drivers to connect. MySQL is probably the most common database being used with Inforama.

3. Inforama doesn't have a backup utility for databases - I think this would really be an area for a sys admin. Currently projects would need to be backed up manually but we intend to move to a system whereby projects are stored in Alfresco or some other document management system allowing for versioning etc.

I hope this answers your questions
Val