HotDocs Document Automation Blog: Document Creation
Document Automation and Document Management Go Hand in Hand
To fully manage the document life cycle firms need to adopt two different technologies: document automation and document management.
Document Creation Software: What it is & Why It Matters For Productivity
Document creation (also known as document automation, document generation, or document assembly) software allows you to convert text-based documents (typically, word-processing files) and PDF forms into powerful productivity tools called templates.
Document Assembly Software for Lawyers
The next 25 years will hold some unfortunate surprises for firms that fail to keep up with technology trends. With the help of legal document assembly software, competitors will be doing the same work in a fraction of the time without any errors. They will have 10 error free jobs done while your attorneys are cutting and pasting their way to their next mistake.
What is an Interactive Form?
An interactive form is a data-gathering window containing multiple questions that interactively change based on user input. In other words, a user’s response to one question may cause one or more additional questions to be added to the window.
Document Assembly, Document Automation, and Document Generation: Three Terms that Describe the Same Thing
In the mid 1970s, when a group at the Brigham Young University Law School set out to create a software application that would automate the production of rule-based legal documentation, the group coined the phrase Document Assembly, a term descriptive of the process of using the software application (commonly referred to as a template) to generate a custom document.