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| Modifying a live application |
| Nintex: Cancel/restart your live workflows or let them finish the old way |
| WEBCON BPS: InstantChange™ – your in-flight workflows adapt immediately |
| Application lifecycle management |
| Nintex: Workflow/forms are versioned but not moved between environments; data is not part of your application and changes to data will break it |
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| On-premises & Cloud |
Nintex: Three separate and incompatible offerings |
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| Migration and upgrades |
| Nintex: Manual with some automated guidance. Not all features migrate. Audit trail and current running status must be discarded |
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| Process mapping |
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Nintex: Separate product |
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| Workflow designer |
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Nintex: Separate product |
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| Analytics |
| Nintex: Workflow designer must add extra measurement steps to workflow |
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| Application data |
| Nintex: Must be modeled somewhere else (SharePoint, SQL) and managed independently of your application |
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| Power user options |
| Nintex: Power users use the same tools as professionals, which are definitely not “workflow for everyone” |
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| Nintex | WEBCON BPS | |
|---|---|---|
| Modifying a live application | Cancel/restart your live workflows or let them finish the old way | InstantChange™ – your in-flight workflows adapt immediately |
| Application lifecycle management | Workflow/forms are versioned but not moved between environments; data is not part of your application and changes to data will break it | 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 |
Three separate and incompatible offerings | 
One platform that runs on-premises, cloud IaaS, and SaaS offering |
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.
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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