PerfectForms: Helping Educational Institutions Stay Ahead in a Time of Change

In today’s constantly changing environment, teachers, faculty, and administrators at educational institutions across the country are facing a whole new world of pressures and demands. Administrative processes and tasks, from legacy applications to reporting and data collection, can require time and attention they simply don’t have. In this dynamic time, PerfectForms, a no-code software company founded in 2008, is focused on helping educational institutions and organizations focus on what they do best: educating. PerfectForms offers staff at educational institutions the ability to quickly build the applications and solutions they need to work faster and better together, without any programming knowledge, saving them time, effort, and money. “With PerfectForms, anyone can build a user interface to collect data, define a workflow process and create powerful reports without writing a line of code,” said Paula Selvidge, CEO of PerfectForms. “Simply drag and drop with an easy-to-use, visual designer to build custom solutions.”

Originally founded with a focus on web form automation, PerfectForms has evolved to offer a robust no-code development platform and launched a completely new and improved back-end and front-end architecture in 2020. Educational institutions have leveraged PerfectForms to empower and serve the data collection and workflow automation needs of their entire communities, from student groups to faculty, administrators and more. For example, educational institutions from K-12 schools to colleges and universities are using PerfectForms to administer more efficient student admissions, hire and on-board faculty, and process payments and donations to their institutions. Other institutions are using PerfectForms for ensuring compliance with COVID mandatory reporting guidelines, IT asset management, expense reporting, and transportation requests.

The Business Affairs department at the University of Tennessee Martin (UTM) used PerfectForms to transform their photo ID badge creation process. UTM used to conduct the ID creation process in person, a massive and expensive undertaking which required staff, photographers, and days of coordination and planning. PerfectForms helped UTM do away with its process-heavy orientation system and create and automate an online student ID request form in its place. Using this, students can apply for IDs before they arrive on campus, and anyone who forgets can be notified automatically using the system. Educational institutions can set up automated notifications and escalations within PerfectForms and even create informative reports with data grids, graphs, and charts. “Our platform enables users to build engaging applications with a drag-and-drop visual designer, at a fraction of what large packaged applications or traditional custom development projects cost while saving time for everyone,” Selvidge emphasized.

PerfectForms also integrates with third-party systems and databases, meaning PerfectForms seamlessly complements and works with data systems that institutions are already using. While it does give various team members the ability to create no-code solutions, PerfectForms also includes built-in oversight and accountability. IT departments and leaders can choose to log in and review the solutions that are being created by team members to ensure they comply with internal guidelines and policies. “The use of our no-code development platform provides a variety of benefits from reduced development and deployment time to less dependence on IT resources,” Selvidge explained. “It also ensures process compliance, improves collaboration, and reduces errors and miscommunication.”

With PerfectForms, IT departments have more time to focus on more technically demanding projects while reducing the cost of developing and maintaining applications. As educational institutions evolve and their needs change, PerfectForms solutions can easily be scaled, versioned, and redeployed. Educational institutions and organizations may not know exactly what the future holds, but PerfectForms puts more of the power to work faster and better together – and with their communities – directly in their hands.