Case Studies

Faced with a looming power shortage, CSAC was met with the difficult challenge of collecting information from counties about the use of electricity in the state. To do this, CSAC needed a way to collect and evaluate information quickly to meet a rigid deadline that threatened to leave California without power. CSAC designed standardized forms to help collect information, but these forms were hard to distribute and required staff to spend considerable time filing the returned forms and entering the information into a database. XForms rendered the process paperless. Using XForms, CSAC was able to eliminate their distribution dilemma by placing their exiting forms online, where they could be accessed and filled out by county council members online. The data was then submitted directly to CSAC’s database, eliminating the need for redundant data entry.