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| Modifying a live application | Cancel/restart your live workflows or let them finish under the now-obsolete workflow path | InstantChange™ – your in-flight workflows adapt immediately |
| Application lifecycle management | Applications can be deployed from a development to a test or production environment, but it rarely goes quite as planned and almost always requires troubleshooting and tweaking – especially when deploying updates | 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 |
| Agility | If you have different roles, different business entities, etc., expect to add a lot of custom rules and branching logic | Built-in support for adapting forms and workflow behavior to roles, business entities, and more; 90% of the time without code, rules, or formulas |
| Performance | Busy forms are slow unless genuinely arcane tricks are deployed | Data access optimization and performance are built into the UI framework |
| User adoption | Three applications built by three different developers will behave three different ways, requiring users to be trained three different times | UI framework promotes consistency across applications; a user who learns one application already knows how to use any new applications |
| Migration and upgrades | Manual with some automated guidance. Not all features migrate. Audit trail and current running status must be discarded | Everything migrates, in every direction, with current status and audit trail preserved and intact |
| Process mapping | Workflow diagrams are meant for technical; business-friendly diagramming requires a separate product | Integrated with workflow and forms and report and dashboard designer; no separate diagrams or products needed |
| Design environment(s) | Separate designers for forms, workflows, reports, and data connections; fewer connections between them than you’d expect | Integrated with process mapping and forms and report and dashboard designer |
| Analytics | Workflow designer must add extra measurement steps to workflow | Built into each workflow step |
| Application data | Must be modeled somewhere else (SharePoint, SQL) and managed independently of your application – then you must build a SmartObject to work with it | Data is part of your application and is deployed/updated as your application evolves |
| Power users | You may not have to code like a developer, but you won’t get far unless you can think like a developer | Designer Desk provides non-professionals with an easy way to create prototypes professionals can extend and deploy to product |
It’s in your data center. It’s a hosted solution. It’s a part of your cloud infrastructure. It’s everywhere.
And everywhere WEBCON BPS is, it’s the same technology. The same feature set. Not just the same look and feel. The same everything.
And everywhere WEBCON BPS is, it’s the same technology. The same feature set. Not just the same look and feel. The same everything.
Applications wind up involving forms, workflows, reports, connections to data, and perhaps a unified web application that brings them all together. With most platforms, those different elements are build separately, integrated manually, and deployed carefully.
Here’s the fun part: in WEBCON BPS, they’re all different faces of a single thing. The forms are a window into the current state of the workflow. The data schema tells the forms what they need to do. Lookup fields can reference a catalog of already-configured data sources. There are business rules governing, well, everything. Reports know about current status and form content. Change audit trails keep track of everything, not just documents.
Virtually every process management and workflow automation platform treats a single running instance as a set of queued instructions. Once it starts, it can’t change, and you have to accept it. Maybe you can cancel and restart it, but that’s it. WEBCON BPS is better than that. At every step in a process, a running instance checks the model to see what should happen next. Change the model, the running instances change their path. The forms change their behavior. The data changes its schema. The reports change their appearance. The model implemented by WEBCON’s InstantChange™ technology is rare – and incredibly useful when you have processes that won’t stand still.
WEBCON BPS apps can happily run for months, if not years, without consuming resources or slowing anything down. You can migrate them, and even modify them, and they’ll continue to run.
In a world of citizen-assisted development, professionals stay in regular contact with stakeholders. That means stakeholders/users need to be able to understand what’s going on and be able to give feedback that’ll be acted on.
With WEBCON’s Designer Desk, stakeholders create the initial specifications in the form of a functioning prototype. When professionals pick that up and carry it forward, the ongoing work is familiar. With InstantChange™, the effort and time needed to react to feedback is microscopic.
Deployment isn’t an afterthought. It’s wired into WEBCON BPS’ DNA. Every application element is aware that it can be moved from place to place, and fundamental design decisions were made to ensure that things keep working when they do.
You can even define dependencies into your applications when you want them to behave differently between development, testing, and production, too.
Plenty of platforms offer analytics. Some charge extra for it. Almost all of them require you to do extra work to make use of it. So your hyper-detailed, flowchart-style workflow diagrams will need to become extra detailed to accommodate extra steps to emit metrics to be collected for analysis.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the workflow model assumed it would be reported on? That it provided metrics automatically? And that it had room for you to easily add extra metrics to measure without making the project more complicated? We thought so – and we made it so.
The reason why so many projects never get started is because stakeholders aren’t quite sure what they want. Not in detail, at least. Designers conduct a seemingly endless series of requirements-gathering meetings, specification reviews, and so on. They do this because they can’t afford not to get it right the first time. WEBCON BPS changes that. By making the cost of change low and effort to evolve easy, you can start with an imperfect first try and immediately follow it up with a series of improvements based on feedback. Improvement cycles can be measured in hours, sometimes even minutes. And since most people have an easier time critiquing than imagining, you not only get faster results – you get better results, too.
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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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