inphoActive // About Us

Young Enterprise Northern Ireland

Through the fundamental rethinking and, sometimes, the radical re-design of business processes, inphoActive's mission is to achieve dramatic improvements in clients' costs, quality, service and speed of product or service delivery.
By gaining insight and understanding into the people and process elements through workflow and process mapping, inphoActive integrates innovative technology tools that act as powerful enablers in the redesign of organisational processes.

Packaged and delivered though a tailored managed service, the inphoActive solution has an abundance of uses, - from SMEs speeding up information transmission to the office for sales orders, deliveries, and collections, to large corporations and government bodies, who want to streamline and improve their forms processing, as part of a wider e-business strategy.

Digital pen and paper (DPP) technology combines the use of traditional pen and paper with a computer's ability to store, share, and process the information collected.

illustration of how DP&P technology works from writing on the page to the user receiving the file

Digital pens are used like ordinary pens on ordinary paper. The only differences are that the pen contains electronics capable of storing time-stamped content and the paper has a faint print of irregular dots. The dots act as coordinates, enabling the pen to know which form is being used, what is being written and where.

For increased security, each pen has a unique identifier allowing all information recorded by it to be traced back to the source. The data stored in the pen is transmitted through a docking station linked directly to your PC or via a compatible Bluetooth Blackberry or Mobile phone to a central server for storage, further processing/manipulation and analysis/reporting, or transmission to colleagues.

This technology is especially relevant in situations requiring a significant amount of forms Police using DP&P technology processing. For example where information such as signatures needs to be collected as part of a proof of delivery or where receipt details need to be collected and transferred quickly from the field, back to head office.

Digital pen and paper technology can be easily introduced at a manageable cost, to users who are unfamiliar or wary of new technologies. For example, in industries that have tried and tested paper-based processes, digital pen and paper enables a new level of efficiency without disrupting working procedures