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| Modifying a live application | Cancel/restart your live workflows or let them finish the old way | InstantChange™ – your in-flight workflows adapt immediately |
| Integration | Making an application out of components is up to you; PowerApps are built separately from Flows which are separate from reports which are separate from Azure functions which are separate from data; links between them are fragile | The entire solution is built as a set of tightly-coupled components that work together automatically |
| Duration | Flows must complete within 30 days; running over that is considered an exception; workarounds exist, but they delay the inevitable, and they’re fragile | Processes can run for one second or one century, and any length of time in between; they’ll survive migration, upgrades, changes to the model, and not end prematurely |
| Application lifecycle management | Forms, workflows, and any dependent components must be manually packaged; non-destructive/non-disruptive updates is at best an art, not a science | The entire application – workflow, forms, reports, dashboards, data schema, connections to external data – can be packaged and deployed (and updated) from development to test to production |
| On-premises & Cloud | Online and multitenant only; a gateway must be used to breach firewalls to access on-premises data | One platform that runs on-premises, cloud IaaS, and SaaS offering |
| Migration and upgrades | Elements of projects can be exported as templates for building new projects somewhere else, which isn’t exactly migration | Everything migrates, in every direction, with current status and audit trail preserved and intact |
| Process mapping | Create an abstract high-level diagram in Visio, then separately build the application using different tools — doing the work twice | The process model is the workflow diagram, and (together with the data dictionary) drives the form and report models |
| Analytics and audit trails | Workflow designer must add extra measurement steps to a flow, and create a place to store those metrics and a way to view them | Built into each workflow step; reporting and analyzing is built into the platform |
| Records, auditing, case management | Documents can be treated as records, but the process used to review them will be lost when completed. Data is disconnected and connections are ad-hoc | Every workflow instance is a case with status, roles, documents, data, and an audit trail; the case can be treated like a record from cradle to grave |
| Application data | Must be modeled somewhere else (Lists, DataFlex, SQL) and managed independently of your application; data is not part of your application and changes to data will break it | Data is part of your application and is deployed/updated as your application evolves |
| Power user options | Power users must use the same tools as professionals; while technically not “code,” a spelling error or misplaced parenthesis will break an application | Designer Desk provides non-professionals with an easy way to create prototypes professionals can extend and deploy to professionals |
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An application isn’t really a one-time deliverable – it’ll need to be regularly adapted and improved in collaboration with users and stakeholders. That can’t happen unless the cost of change is low, and that applies to both creating changes and gracefully deploying them.
If what you create is a set of separate deliverables you orchestrate to work together, you — not the software — are the solution. You’ll need to carefully keep those components in sync as your application grows. And the Power Platform all but demands that your applications be made up of many discrete pieces in many places with loosely-couple connections between them; move one thing out of place and the whole effort is at risk. With WEBCON BPS, though, the workflows, the forms, the data schema, the business rules, the reports, and any mapped external data are already interconnected and aware of each other. Change one thing and everything else gracefully adapts. Design it as a set. Deploy it as a set. Update it as a set. Version it as a set.
Excel-like formulas fail from a misplaced parenthesis – they’re code. Needing to work with JSON and OData is just one step away from, well, code. The Power Platform is genuinely low-code, but literally so, in the sense of less coding like a developer – but one still has to think like a developer to be successful. The issue is that business users already have jobs. Asking them to be responsible for real applications is a lot to ask. Occasionally, some business users get good at building applications and become developers. More often than not, an early attempt doesn’t survive contact with its first user without bringing in professionals to help finish the job. And those pros often find it easier to just rebuild the whole thing. WEBCON Designer Desk makes it easy for a business user to create an annotated working prototype that’s meant to be a usable starting point that professionals can extend and evolve into production-ready solutions. All the while, those business users stay informed and can provide feedback that be acted on instantly. We call it Citizen-Assisted Development – and it really works.
On-prem? Online hosted? Online private? WEBCON is WEBCON is WEBCON. The same features, the same format, and with a 100% migration path in any direction.
A solution with many moving parts in many different places is hard to deploy & maintain but really easy to break. A WEBCON app is built, deployed, updated, and secured as a set.
InstantChange™ means application updates take effect everywhere, right away, even on workflows in flight. No disruption, no restarting, no grandfathering.
WEBCON BPS apps can run for seconds, months, or years. Migrate, and even modify them, and they keep on running.
Don’t abdicate, collaborate. Let users show designers what they want the easiest way possible; you can finish what they started, without compromise.
Deployment isn’t an afterthought to WEBCON – it’s in our DNA. Every part of every application is designed to gracefully deal with dev-test-production stages.
Build and deliver it right away, it doesn’t have to be perfect. Because you can easily – and quickly – improve it. Using real feedback, not imagined requirements.
WEBCON processes auto-report on themselves. You don’t have to clutter them with extra steps that feed custom logs. It’s extra insight without extra effort.
Cases have documents, lists, roles, privileges, audit trails, retention policies, and more – so version, secure, migrate, and archive them as a set. Easily.
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At WEBCON, digital transformation isn’t a buzzword – it’s a way of life; it’s about reducing steps, eliminating mistakes, ensuring compliance, connecting assets, and encouraging continuous improvement – all that thanks to the modern Low-code Application Platform. Applications made with our Low Code Application Platform, WEBCON BPS, are scalable, process-centric, low-to-no-code, equally at home online or on-premises, and happily used on both desktops and mobile devices. WEBCON’s unique InstantChange™ technology lets customers adapt/evolve processes to address changing needs immediately and painlessly. WEBCON processes are clearly understood and easily governed, and they can be connected to lines of business systems, documents, forms, messages, and collaboration workspaces. Low Code Automation has never been easier.
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