SharePoint Server 2007 Business Forms
Another of the most common business requirements is to accommodate forms-driven processes. Capturing data via forms and then processing that data is crucial to avoiding the problems that paper processes can produce such as the duplication of effort, information not reaching the right people quickly enough and paper archival headaches .
Forms Services
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides Office InfoPath Forms Services, which enable the design of these forms by using Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, in addition to deployment of these forms across internal and external Web sites by using Office SharePoint Server 2007. Users can access these forms through a browser or an HTML-enabled mobile device without requiring any custom client software or application components.
By using Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 forms can be designed once and used both with InfoPath itself and also delived via a Web browser which would not require the user to have InfoPath on their machine. Forms are automatically convert into Asp.Net web forms with no addition work from the designer needed.
Using the InfoPath Publishing Wizard forms can be published to new document libraries or can be saved as a content type, this allows the form to be used in multiple document libraries across the SharePoint site.