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This year’s Partner Day took place a day after WEBCON DAY 2022, on October 27^th, and was a field with insightful sessions led by WEBCON experts, sharing their best practices. Apart from networking and meeting everyone in person, the main aim of the event was to highlight some of the most important guidelines that may help our Partners and their Clients to best leverage the WEBCON BPS platform for their business.

We have been growing our Partner Channel network since 2010. Today we work with 75 top-class IT system integrators from around the world. Every member of our community has a different point of view on the market, its needs, and the challenges specific to every region. That’s why we came out with the idea to organize the forum for our international network – to have an opportunity to meet, discuss our experience, and share conclusions. We are thrilled that our initiative was so enthusiastically received by WEBCON’s Partners!

Celebrating the low-code technology

We used to meet every year – unfortunately, because of the global pandemic, we weren’t able to organize such an event for the past two years. This year we were back with our annual events – and we were more than excited to be able to see each other and talk – finally in person!

What was on the agenda? We prepared 6 sessions concerning the most discussed areas related to digital transformation, the implementation of our low-code platform, WEBCON BPS, and our plans for the future:

• WEBCON Keynote
• “You Can Do That?!” Unorthodox, Interesting, Quirky – and Wonderful – Use Cases
• The WEBCON Way: In the software world where everything is “fast & easy”, standing out from the crowd is the key. We shared the details of messaging we use to build a story about WEBCON and its key characteristics that sell.
• Why WEBCON and not ___? One of the most frequent questions that we get asked by you is how to present and advocate for WEBCON BPS when the client is considering or using alternative solutions. With this session, we came bearing answers.
• Tips, Tricks & Life Hacks That Will Make Your Demos Even More Awesome: Small things tend to make a huge difference. This session was dedicated to sharing those things that clients love seeing during product presentations.
• Leap into the Future: Product Roadmap

After the part dedicated to the sessions, we invited our guests to take a part in the bowling tournament – a little sports competition is always a good idea!

An unforgettable day that will come back!

It was an amazing day and we cannot wait to see all our Partners again next year! We’re thrilled that our Partner Channel community is growing so fast and that every member of it is always willing to meet in person to share their ideas, experience, and insights with everyone else!

If you want to know more about the WEBCON Partner Channel program, be sure to check out the Become our Partner page.

Check out the photos from the sessions and bowling tournament:

The 8th edition of one of the leading European conferences on digital transformation took place on October 26 in Krakow. WEBCON DAY is a forum for process digitization and automation practitioners, which for years has been attracting representatives of the most innovative organizations operating in various industries, both in Poland and around the world.

The previous edition of the conference took place in 2019.This year, WEBCON DAY returned to once again create a unique opportunity to exchange knowledge, experiences and ideas from hundreds of IT and business executives from all over Europe.

The conference was inaugurated by a speech by Radosław Putek, CEO and Founder of WEBCON, who welcomed the guests and talked about how the company has developed during the past three years, and where we are today. During his speech, he emphasized the importance of all areas of WEBCON’s activity – such as running the WEBCON Academy training program or enhancing the cooperation with Polish universities. WEBCON’s CEO also emphasized the importance of the WEBCON BPS platform being listed in the Forrester report “Now Tech: Digital Process Automation, Q4 2021”, among top solutions on the market in that category.

Next, Łukasz Wróbel, the SVP & CBDO of WEBCON, took the stage to host the keynote session. He talked about the upcoming IT trends, and why low-code technology is crucial in light of the ever-greater shortage of IT professionals. He shared the results of WEBCON’s US study among the CIO’s which shows how the role of low-code platforms will increase in the upcoming years, and why they believe it’s a better way to deliver business applications than custom coding or implementing off-the-shelf solutions.

Wróbel also explained what’s WEBCON’s true mission:

“How do we perceive the role of our WEBCON BPS platform today? It’s an application factory – so it’s not about creating one application – it’s about delivering tens and hundreds of them. A year. But it’s also about optimizing the entire delivery process and ongoing maintenance ”- Łukasz Wróbel, CBDO WEBCON.

Afterwards, Mike Fitzmaurice, Chief Evangelist & VP of WEBCON North America took the stage and shared some of the new functionalities the users can expect from the upcoming 2023 version of the WEBCON BPS platform. He also emphasized the huge role of WEBCON BPS users in setting new directions for the platform’s development, admitting that WEBCON Community is a huge mine of interesting ideas and suggestions.

After the networking break, we gave the stage to the WEBCON clients, who shared their inspiring stories on how our low-code technology helps them transform and grow their business. This year, the conference speakers lineup included representatives from 7 organizations: Wyborowa Pernod Ricard, Grupa Azoty, Polpharma, Raben Group, x-kom, DSI Underground and PwC.

Digital transformation leaders share their unique experiences with low-code technology

“To travel a thousand miles, you have to take the first step” – was the title of the first session hosted by Przemysław Dziewiatowski, Business Relationship Manager at Wyborowa Pernod Ricard. A representative of one of the largest companies in the FMCG sector revealed the recipe for successful digitization and shared with the conference guests advice on how to arrange cooperation between IT and business, how to organize resources and what to emphasize – so that digital transformation becomes a reality .

After the session on how to engage business users to work closely with IT to make the process digitization happen, it was time to find an answer to the next question: why do organizations need a unified application platform? The session was hosted by Paweł Lustofin, the IT Manager at Grupa Azoty, who explained that every company should strive to create such an application infrastructure that will allow to provide solutions ideally suited to organization needs, and not go for ready-made solutions that cover only a part of them.

In the maze of available technologies, it is difficult to be sure which of them is the right one for a given IT project – and the larger the project, the more complicated the decision-making process. Andrzej Tołoczko, Head of the Corporate Platforms Team at Polpharma, shared how the company chooses what technologies to use in specific IT projects – and when do they go with a low-code platform. He covered the whole technology selection process and what criteria are taken into account when selecting systems for individual projects. He also emphasized the role of knowledge exchange and sharing experiences between teams within the company: “Due to the fact that we are open to new ideas, we can more easily adapt to the ever-changing business landscape. We try to constantly learn new things, but then we don’t forget share it with others – both within our company and beyond – hence our presence at WEBCON DAY.”

Next, it was time to look at the issue of business process management in an international organization. Robert Ogierman, IT Project Coordinator at the logistics company Raben Group, talked about the role of a well-planned IT infrastructure in an organization that grows its business by acquisitions, and is currently present in 15 countries. The speaker put the greatest emphasis on the unification of business processes: “We approach the implementation of new applications according to the approach we call uniflex. This means that our processes are unified and flexible, i.e. standardized and flexible. We also like to use the second term: changes in our processes are implemented in accordance with the “sell or jail” principle. Either someone who wants to implement a change must present a good business case, somehow “sell” this idea to us, or there must be a legal requirement that will force us to make the modifications.”

After Raben’s session, it was time to learn about the perspective of an e-commerce business. Artur Opara, Product Owner at x-kom, raised another important issue in the context of digitization and automation of business processes: striving to build a competitive advantage, which in the e-commerce industry can be achieved by striving for hypereeffectiveness.

E-commerce is one of the most competitive industries on the market. Companies operating in this sector must constantly strive to optimize their business processes. In his speech, Artur Opara emphasized the role of properly selected technology and mature organizational culture in processes digitization projects. He also drew attention to the importance of building a team of competent IT architects: “If we had the awareness we have today during the first project, the process would be completely different. It is not the fault of the partner, software or ours. You just need experience for that. Architects are the bridge between the platform, the partner and the organization implementing the solution.“

The next speaker, Mateusz Borkowski, Head of Global IT and Digital Strategy at DSI Underground, devoted his session to the topic of building an application factory for a global manufacturing company.

Application factory is a concept thanks to which the digitization of each subsequent process brings us closer to achieving a company-wide process optimization. Mateusz Borkowski shared his experience in achieving global IT management goals without the risk of losing the involvement of individual local teams. He also talked about the concept of “new IT” – one that focuses on solutions, not just infrastructure.

The part of the conference devoted to customer case studies ended with the session hosted by PwC: “Digitization on a large scale”. Monika Domitrz, Senior Manager at PwC, and Grzegorz Józefiak, Director at Data Analytics PwC, presented their experiences in building a solution supporting one of the most critical business processes of the organization – e-contracting. The implementation took place in as many as 27 countries in the CEE region. PwC representatives admitted that they owe their success to an appropriate approach to involving business users in the process of creating new solutions. “Our process came from dreams – dreams that you no longer have to look for scattered information in different systems or platforms,” ​​said Monika Domitrz. “Thanks to the low-code technology, we could finally make those dreams come true.”

WEBCON MVP: the most prolific and dedicated members of the WEBCON Community

During the conference dinner, we have hosted the very first award ceremony for the WEBCON MVP program. It’s goals is to distinguish the most prolific WEBCON Community members who regularly and in a special way contribute to sharing product knowledge, support other members of the international WEBCON community, create inspiring materials on how to work with the platform, and represent WEBCON at global events around the world.

The first ever WEBCON MVPs for 2022 are: Daniel Krüger, Marcin Grotowski, Markus Jenni, Martin Meze, Paweł Hołdak, Razvan Ogrezeanu and Sebastian Gębuś.

WEBCON Expert Zone

During the conference, participants had also the unique opportunity to talk with WEBCON employees from various departments. In the WEBCON Expert Zone, they could meet and ask various questions about the platform, covering such areas as WEBCON BPS development, WEBCON Academy, infrastructure and migrations, integration with other systems, use of OCR technology and platform licensing method.

The meeting is just the beginning

WEBCON DAY has been attracting specialists to Krakow for years, who are ready to look for new solutions and share their experiences with digital transformation practitioners. The conference organized by WEBCON is the only one in Poland that provides an opportunity meet so many IT and business executives to share ideas and experiences with. We are proud that we got this opportunity to meet with so many of our clients and partners again, and we cannot wait to see each other again soon.

We hope that our guests got inspired by our client’s stories, and have new ideas on how to further optimize their processes with low-code technology. But we still encourage to keep on learning: in our Resources tab, we have numerous articles, studies, session recordings from previous WEBCON DAY editions, and inspiring case studies that can give even more ideas on how to leverage low-code to accelerate business growth.

Thank you for coming to WEBCON DAY 2022, and we hope to see you again in Krakow next year.

 

Mike Fitzmaurice, VP of North America and Chief Evangelist at WEBCON, has recently became a member of the Forbes Technology Council. The members of the council are respected tech leaders – CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, and others — selected for the council based on their deep knowledge and diverse experience in the industry. “Digital Transformation Can’t Be Forced, But It Can Be Coaxed” is the first article published by Mike in the role of a member of the Forbes Technology Council.

In his article, Mike points out that the term “digital transformation” has been extremely overused, and at the same time more and more consultants and vendors promise that digital transformation will magically occur if one simply buys the right product or engages the right people. The problem is – it’s not that easy.

Read the article to learn what not to do, and what you should do to make sure your digital transformation strategy will be the one that works.

Read other articles:

Council Post: Three Reasons Why COTS Software Might Not Be Right For Your Organization

Viewing Digital Transformation As An Evolving Effort

Council Post: Consistency Versus Artistry in Application Development

Council Post: We Need to Talk About Application Usability

Council Post: 9 Smart Questions Tech Pros Can Ask Non-Tech Experts To Understand Their Needs

 

Low-code development’s popularity has been steadily increasing for years now. Its appeal is that it gives users the ability to create software applications through a graphical interface, with little or no need for programming in the traditional sense. But low-code is not without a significant downside if it’s adopted without a long-term strategy in place.

How can you create a proper strategy and ensure it will work for your organization? Read the article on “How to make low-code work long term” and find out!

Intellyx is the first and only industry analysis and advisory firm focused on digital transformation. Intellyx knows that today’s customers – both end consumers and business users – expect more options, higher quality, and better service, at competitive prices with on-demand availability. They expect multiple digital touchpoints with the companies they buy from and work for. And that’s what they look for in the products available on the market.

Recently, they’ve reviewed our low-code application platform, WEBCON BPS. According to Jason Bloomberg, President and Principal Analyst in Intellyx, our digital process automation capabilities compare favorably with competing products in the market.

Read the full review on intellyx.com.

WEBCON is the number one provider of Business Process Management and Electronic Document Workflows ECM software in Poland according to this year’s Computerworld Top 200 report.

Computerworld Top 200 is the most important Polish report that presents the situation of the ICT sector in the country, and identifies key players on the market.

37% YoY growth put us in a leading position in our software category in this year’s report. This result is all the more pleasing as our platform is trusted by enterprises not only in Poland, but all over the world:

“Due to the pandemic, the digital solutions market has grown, especially when it comes to software that facilitates remote work, and business process management. This new reality has also forced many companies to accelerate digital transformation, which they’ve been postponing for years. As a result, we managed to increase our sales in all key markets. What is our recipe for success? A good product, many years of experience and an idea about how to stand out on the low-code technology market” – explains Łukasz Wróbel, Vice President of WEBCON, in an interview published in the report.

Read the interview “Low-Code in Poland” published in the Computerworld Top 200 report in English.

In an era of increased remote working, Workflow Automation has become increasingly important as a way to improve the efficiency of end to end processes as well as engagement levels in your remote teams.

With that in mind, PEX Network’s Workflow Automation 2022 has been designed to help proffesionals optimise their organisational workflow by focusing on mapping existing workflows throughout their organization and identifying inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement. WEBCON proudly supports the event as one of the sponsors.

Register for PEX Network’s Workflow Automation 2022 and join our very own Mike Fitzmaurice, Chief Evangelist and VP North America at WEBCON, in his discussion with Christine Hawkins, Director of Digital and Process Automation, HP, and Linford Dailey – Global Digitalisation and Automation Leader, Robert Bosch GmbH on “Defining the Value of Low Code and No Code Citizen Development Programmes”. The session will be held on the day one, May 17, at 9:00 am.

Digital Process Automation has emerged as a new solution in the push for greater automation, with its principle benefit being the ability to automate an entire end-to-end process, rather than automating single steps along the way.

This year’s PEX Network’s Digital Process Automation will be focused on enhancing integration and overcoming silos between both legacy and modern IT systems across end-to-end processes, identifying bottlenecks and inefficiency within existing processes and utilizing low-code applications in order to increase the ease of use and deployment across the business by coders and business users alike.

Be sure to join our very own Mike Fitzmaurice, VP and Chief Evangelist at WEBCON, at his session on “When I.T.’s Done Right, It’s the Secret Ingredient to Digital Transformation” on day one of the conference, at 11:00 am.

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500 Million Apps were built in the last 40 years. 500 Million more Apps will be built in the next 5 years. The old infrastructure of development is being revolutionized. Global corporate enterprise is in the process of democratizing development to outpace disruption and achieve digital transformation. And as we all move into a next phase of global corporate enterprise intelligent automation, the business executive remains on the front lines of software development with the aid of what has become low code automation. There are, of course, pros and cons to that fact.

Learn what to expect and how to prepare for that at this year’s edition of Low-Code Automation conference, which will be held online. And be sure to join Mike Fitzmaurice, Chief Evangelist and VP North America at WEBCON, at his session on “Five Ways to Make a Low-code Strategy Fail” on a first day of the conference, April 19, at 10:00 am.

We are proud to support the event as one of the sponsors.

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