IRIS Forms offers automated data entry forms for exchanging data between organisations. The exchanged data is unambiguous and readily understandable for both humans and computer systems.

For mission critical operations, ambiguous information must not be misinterpreted, and hours cannot be spent manually digesting facts that could be better processed automatically by computer. With IRIS Forms, required information is exchanged easily and unambiguously.

Timely, consistent and coherent information exchange is essential for successful mission critical operations. In the military world, the ability to collate and utilize own, allied, and enemy forces information provides improves speed of command and increases combat effectiveness.


Figure 1. Plans can be formed in on-line interaction with other units

IRIS Forms is a world leading product for working with structured forms, offering automatic form generation and content validation. IRIS Forms is the only COTS product in the world that offers full military MTF compliance and automated message text forms for effective manual creation and validation of formatted messages.

The BMS enhances the security of own forces and minimises the risk of friendly fire through the COP and by e.g. enabling current adjustments to plans that are distributed instantly to relevant parties. Sketches of plans can even be drawn directly on the screen and be displayed to other units or to HQ immediately.

• Message validation meets standards for the production of correct messages, ensuring interoperability
• Easy-to-use GUI removes the need to know the format-specific details of ADatP-3 or USMTF messages.
• Proven technology, with IRIS Forms' predecessor IRIS Lite used by most NATO and allied countries for the safe preparation of formatted messages.
• Configuration control ensures that the product is kept up-to-date with the latest versions of the standards.
• Advanced integration features allows information contained within a message to be used to update external systems such as operational databases and GIS.

IRIS Forms is able to handle a number of national and international formatted message standards with configuration control features, ensuring that the product is kept up-to-date with the latest versions of these standards.

• ADatP-3
• USMTF
• OTHT GOLD
• ASMTF
• XML-MTF

Customising the IRIS Forms is possible at user and system integrator level. The standard user has a range of options available to tailor the application; for example, to create personal templates to ease the workload of preparing regularly used Forms. The advanced user, or system integrator, can set additional options; for example add different colour themes to fit the specific user environment (for example, no lighting areas).

The user interface can be customised, for example by the addition of a menu or toolbar command to perform the interaction with some other application. For instance, an added toolbar button can automatically update a database or generate content from a database.


Figure 2: IRIS Forms shown in browser view designed for particular customer requirement, thereby making it even easier to view or edít selected information.

IRIS Forms is a product which can be used alone or integrated with IRIS Organisational Messaging as a complete message handling system. Both as stand-alone and integrated with IRIS Organisational Messaging, IRIS Forms is available for the Windows platform and supplied with an API to easily integrate with other systems. The Following platforms are supported: