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One consistent platform that works everywhere 

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 is, it’s the same technology. The same feature set. Not just the same look and feel. The same everything. 

The end of fragile applications 

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 built separately, integrated manually, and deployed carefully.

Here’s the fun part: in WEBCON 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.  

No process left behind when you need to make a change 

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 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 behaviour. The data changes its schema. The reports change their appearance. The model implemented by WEBCON’s Instant Change™ technology is rare – and incredibly useful when you have processes that won’t stand still.  

Processes that run as long as you need 

WEBCON 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.  

Professionals and stakeholders working together 

In a world of citizen-asissted 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 specification in the form of a functioning prototype. When professionals pick that up and carry it forward, the ongoing work is familiar. With Instant Change™, the effort and time needed to react to feedback is microscopic.  

Deployment lifecycle support 

Deployment isn’t an afterthought, it’s wired into WEBCON’s DNA. Every app element is aware that it ca 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.  

Auditing and analytics without extra effort 

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 is 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 end of analysis paralysis 

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 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, sometime even minutes. And since most people have an easier time critiquing than imagining, you not only get faster results – you get better results, too.