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“It’s not about building a one good application – it’s about arming you with a platform to build a lot of them, and to have them behave in a consistent way, so that your users don’t have to relearn new things every single time” – that’s what Łukasz Wróbel, our SVP & CBDO, and Mike Fitzmaurice, VP at WEBCON North America talked about during the interview with Julian Lee from e-channelnews.com.
Listen to the conversation about how we believe the successful low-code application development should look like, how does our platform address the need for agile solutions, and learn more about the launch of our Channel Partner Program in North America.
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In the past years we could observe that the already-substantial shortage of developers has gotten worse. With demand for applications greater than the supply of skilled workers to create them, development teams have been struggling to keep up. What else could has been observed by the leaders of innovation? What changes, challenges and difficulties can be met by those embarking on a journey to digital transformation? Our very own Mike Fitzmaurice, Chief Evangelist and VP North America in WEBCON, shares his predictions for 2022.
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As businesses poised for recovery and growth in 2022, it has never been so critical for transformation executives to take a leadership role in mastering the new ways of working. Yet many transformation leaders find themselves in unfamiliar waters: the pace of change spinning faster than ever, rulebooks torn and redrawn, new technologies surfacing, amongst all these a distributed workforce adding another layer of complexity.
The 2022 OPEX Week: Business Transformation World Summit’s aim is to support decision makers and transformation leaders to master this change with the most relevant case studies from Fortune companies on rethinking your structure, capabilities and processes, the most trusted transformation leaders on developing a readiness culture for change, and the most enthusiastic conversations to spark ideas on innovation and leading transformation in the new hybrid environment.
OPEX Week is a perfect occasion to learn from leaders across a range of industries, connect and network with the best of the best, empower yourself with the right solutions, new ideas and insights from the experts, and finally – participate in thought-provoking discussions which may change the way you look at today’s problems and challenges.
We’d like to invite you on our booth to talk digital transformation, technology challenges and opportunities – our team will look forward to meet you!
We are happy to announce that WEBCON supports the upcoming PEX Live: Low Code Automation 2022 event, that will be held on January 25-26. PEX Live: Low Code Automation 2022 is organized by PEX Network, the world’s leading community of business transformation and process excellence professionals, with more than 160,000 members worldwide.
The low-code market is forecasted to be worth $27 billion this year, with 84 per cent of businesses having some element of low-code tools in their tech stack. This technology overcomes what was previous the primary barrier to enterprise automation initiatives, namely the lack of sufficient individuals with the coding know-how.
Fortunately, now the benefits of automation can be unlocked across the business – thanks to low- and no-code solutions every organization has an opportunity to work on business applications by itself. However, this phenomenon brings its own, new challenges – such as how to ensure automation projects are in line with corporate priorities, data security requirements, and many more.
This year’s edition of PEX Live: Low Code Automation will be focused on the challenges and digital transformation implementation strategies. Leaders of innovation and experts from all around the world will discuss citizen developers, vendor selection, shadow IT, collaboration and no-code technology.
We’re delighted to invite you to join us on Day Two. At 11:00 AM our very own Mike Fitzmaurice, Chief Evangelist and VP North America in WEBCON, will hold a session on “Five Ways to Make a Low-code Strategy Fail”. We’re sure it will be an extremely inspirational presentation for all of the leaders of innovation!
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If you were one of the hundreds of people who tuned in live to our WEBCON BPS Summit 2022 event – thank you for attending! If you weren’t there, you haven’t missed out – here you can see all the recordings.
The WEBCON BPS Summit 2022 was the online counterpart to our annual WEBCON Day gathering, our major annual event during which we present the state of WEBCON, the state of digital process automation (and business process management, and low-code development), and what it means for digital transformation, and the state of the 2022 release of our WEBCON BPS platform.
It was online, but interactive, and a lot of you kept us busy in online chats (never a bad thing). Here’s a quick recap of the half-day:
CEO Radoslaw Putek inaugurated things by recapping 2021, focusing on the milestones we achieved, WEBCON being recognized in the Forrester’s Now Tech DPA report, and the vision for both the company and the platform.
SVP Lukasz Wrobel presented what’s new for 2022; it covered the what, how, and why behind what we have to say is a very exciting release. The online chat dialogs were kept particularly busy during this one. Seriously, if you’ve worked with WEBCON BPS, you’re going to love what we did. And if you haven’t, well, when you do take a look at WEBCON BPS – you’ll find it all the more compelling.
The participants also got a chance to join an exclusive webinar featuring Forrester ‘s VP & Principal Analyst, Rob Koplowitz, and Mike Fitzmaurice, VP of WEBCON North America that was all about driving digital transformation with low-code development.
Last, but not least, our WEBCON experts hosted live workshops showing how our zero-code Designer Desk tool makes citizen participation a far more sustainable, productive, and rapid alternative to citizen development. We call it Citizen-Assisted Development, and video testimonials from customers showed just how well it works.
So again, thanks for attending if you did, and don’t miss our on-demand recordings!
The brand new version of our low-code platform, WEBCON BPS is officially here, and we’re excited to let you experience the powerful new features we introduced in the 2022 version. Empower your IT team with the best-in-class low-code solution, and take process automation to a whole new level with WEBCON.
Every year we release a brand new version of our low-code platform, WEBCON BPS. We’ve been hard at work for the past twelve months improving existing features and adding significant new functionality. They’ll immediately enhance the applications that already built, as well as offer even more when building brand new solutions.
The latest version incorporates a broad range of enhancements designed to meet the specific tactical needs of IT and business teams breaking under the increasing volume and velocity of process transformation in modern enterprises.
Here’s an overview of the main new features and enhancements introduced in WEBCON BPS 2022:
This one is big, and it’s probably the most dramatic new feature for 2022. Seriously – it’s a game-changer.
Instead of lists of actions, and each action having an optional condition, we introduced a proper flowchart that can branch based on conditions and execute actions. They’re easy to visualize, and even easier to create and maintain. They’re bursts of automated activity, so we’re calling them automations.
So now:
We’ve also made it possible to reuse automations, pass parameters between them without needing to use technical form fields as temporary storage, and configure advanced error handling. They can also be nested.
We debuted Designer Desk in 2021, and WEBCON customers and partners loved it. For some, it became a defining first step for bringing technical and business people together to create an application design made up of examples and annotations rather than abstract requests that would require negotiations. But there’s always room for improvement!
Over the course of 2021, we’ve also introduced a free Designer Desk-only online subscription. Anyone can use it to build, try out, and iteratively improve examples. Output from this environment is a one-click generation of documentation.
WEBCON BPS customers and subscribers can also export Designer Desk prototypes straight to Designer Studio to accelerate building the application itself.
In 2022 release we’ve added such enhancements as:
In 2022 release we’ve focused both on making forms a bit more attractive and a lot more functional. General changes include the fact that forms provide more context now, and are far more user-friendly.
For instance, for mobile form entry, you can now specify which type of onscreen keyboard should be used for each single-line text, multi-line text, and numeric text field. We also added input placeholders for these fields, displaying sample text or explanatory text inside the field. The text isn’t actually “in” the field, and vanishes the moment the user enters actual data into the field. This, combined with tooltips, should make form entry more intuitive.
Sometimes, sorting by a date field doesn’t provide enough context, so for 2022, we are introducing a completely new view for displaying a report’s contents as a calendar or agenda. We anticipate it being particularly useful for applications involving events, meetings, scheduling, and so on.
This new view allows you to choose the columns, filters, and groupings to be displayed, as well as the styles and colors in which individual calendar entries will be presented. This will include display conditions, which should allow for user-specific fine-tuning. Month, week, work week, day, and agenda views are available. As with other report views, the calendar view can also be used on mobile devices.
Responding to the suggestions made by our customers and partners, the 2022 release introduces a completely new advanced mode of work with full access on behalf of the employee being replaced.
When a new mode is selected, the stand-in person can use the indicated application or process in exactly the same way – and with the same privileges – as the original user. Actions performed by an alternate in full access mode will be signed with the original user, and information about the operation in “on behalf of” mode will be available in the item history view.
The 2022 release includes a completely rebuilt mechanism for handling mass notifications, generated by the system automatically and aggregating information about a user’s tasks into a tabular form or a tile view. The new version enables the definition of many independent mass notifications, each containing data from selected processes and sent at selected times.
Interested in learning about all the new features and enhancements introduced in WEBCON BPS 2022?
Mike Fitzmaurice, Chief Evangelist and VP of WEBCON North America was recently a guest of Kevin Craine’s Digital Transformation Podcast, a top 5 podcast for digital transformation, and no. 1 in its category on Apple Podcasts.
During this episode, they discussed the role of low-code platforms and citizen-assisted development movement in the journey towards digital transformation. We are proud to announce that the Kevin’s guest in this episode was Mike Fitzmaurice, Chief Evangelist and VP at WEBCON.
Listen to the podcast to learn:
… and more!
Listen to the podcast:
About Mike Fitzmaurice:
Mike Fitzmaurice, Vice President, WEBCON North America
Mike has over 25 years of experience in consulting, engineering, marketing, evangelism, and IT management. Having spoken at countless international conferences, hosted numerous expert sessions and webinars, he is one of the most recognizable and prolific members of the SharePoint community worldwide, specializing in process automation and low-code development. His 11 years at Microsoft included helping launch the first four releases of SharePoint and positioning it as a development platform.
There’s more to a business process than an automation flowchart, but don’t believe us — believe your own eyes, because this webinar is all demos!
Join Mike Fitzmaurice on April 15 at 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) / 6:00 PM CET and let him show you in real-time the magic of automating processes with WEBCON BPS.
He’ll show you the payoff of:
About the speaker
Mike Fitzmaurice has over 25 years of experience in consulting, engineering, marketing, evangelism, and IT management. Having spoken at countless international conferences, hosted numerous expert sessions and webinars, he is one of the most recognizable and prolific members of the SharePoint community worldwide, specializing in process automation. He spent 11 years at Microsoft, helping launch the first four releases of SharePoint and positioning it as a development platform.
It’s less than two months now! Europe’s premier Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint & Azure conference, the ESPC, kicks off December 2 in Prague.WEBCON is proud to support the event and the community for the 7th time, this year as the Platinum Partner!
IT Pros, developers and business decision makers working professionally with Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint & Azure will meet in Prague, Czech Republic on December 2-5th for the 8th edition of the European SharePoint Office 365 & Azure Conference.
This year’s agenda will cover a range of crucial topics needed to re-think the digital workplace and its functionality, agility, information needs and level of security. Of course, there will be plenty of “what’s new” and “best practices” to take home as well, especially in the areas of team collaboration, security, edge computing, developing for PaaS, infrastructure, IoT and AI.
Come say “hi” to our team and let’s talk about effective business process management in times of constant change. See just how incredibly easy it is to create process-centric SharePoint applications that are simply adaptable, thanks to our InstantChange™ technology, in response to ever-changing business needs.
Throughout the day, our consultants will be presenting WEBCON BPS in action, demonstrating how to build and modify business applications with instant results. They will also answer any of your in-depth questions related to the platform.
Our clients claim to be able to build 9 out of 10 business applications they need with WEBCON BPS – come and challenge us with scenarios to find out if we can do the same for your company!
To show you in how many different ways you can use WEBCON BPS to benefit your business, we’ll host a case study in the Community Area on Wednesday 4th at 4:20 PM.
Wednesday 4th December, 11:45 – 12:45, Level 200
There’s more to a business process than an automation flowchart, but don’t believe us — believe your own eyes, because this session is all demos.
We’ll show you the payoff of models stakeholders can understand; of automatic/integrated forms, documents, case files, and analytics; of making changes that are easy and immediate; and of solutions that are equally happy on premises, online, in a browser, or on devices.
Don’t miss it!
Mike Fiztmaurice, Chief Evangelist and VP North America at WEBCON
Mike Fitzmaurice is the Chief Evangelist and VP – North America for WEBCON and is a recognised thought leader in workflow/business process automation, citizen development, and low-code/no-code solution platforms and strategies. He has more than 25 years of product, consulting, evangelism, engineering, and IT management expertise. His 11 years at Microsoft included being the original technical product manager for SharePoint, helping launch and shepherd its first three releases; it was Mike who birthed, developed, and led developer evangelism on SharePoint, positioning it as a development platform. Other gigs included a decade at Nintex as Vice-President of Workflow Technology, a year as Chief Technology Officer for skybow, and five years as Director of IT at the National Association of Broadcasters.
See the full 2019 programme here.
Join us at the EXPO Drinks on Tuesday 3rd at 17:45 for craft beer with a hint of WEBCON, straight from the magical city of Krakow and keep up the SharePoint spirit!
Why is this beer so special to us? It was prepared by our befriended brewer artisan and former colleague, Tomasz Rogaczewski, the owner of Pracownia Piwa (“the Beer Lab”). At the peak of his career at WEBCON, Tomasz discovered his passion for beer, and pursued it successfully to become a certified beer judge and sommelier, and finally open a rewarded craft brewery. Of course, as befits a genuine WEBCONer, Tomasz uses the WEBCON BPS platform to automate the workflows of his beers’ production, distribution, and ordering system.
