the latest version WEBCON BPS 2024

WEBCON BPS 2024

We’re excited to introduce a brand new platform release, WEBCON BPS 2024.

Every year we release a new version of our enterprise low-code process platform, WEBCON BPS, to address new challenges, needs, and trends. We gathered our Clients’ and Partners’ feedback to make our platform more supportive, user-friendly, and powerful than ever before. The result of many months of our work is a new release of the platform: you’ll surely appreciate improved existing features and new, significant functionalities.

This year’s release you’ll see improvements to both the visual and user experience layers, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t able to add a variety of other extensive technological updates that enhance security, work continuity, and overall platform functionality.

Release date: 9/07/2024 – WEBCON BPS 2024

Check the most important changes introduced in the new version:

1. A New Standard for UX and UI

The WEBCON BPS 2024 introduces a completely new user interface designed to improve readability, ease of information absorption, and modern aesthetics. The new design will be available starting from the second release.

• UX – User Experience: The new platform interface is based on best practices such as Nielsen’s 10 heuristics and market trends like glassmorphism, skeuomorphism, and material design.
• UI – Visual Design: The new UI of WEBCON BPS is built on Microsoft’s Fluent 2 design system, ensuring consistency with the Microsoft 365 application ecosystem.

2. Important Updates

We have implemented significant updates that enhance security and establish stable foundations for implementing additional functionalities.

• Migration of the SOLR platform from version 8 to 9: In the new version, SOLR indexing performance and global search result display will be more effective.
• Migration from .NET 6.0 to the latest version, .NET 8.0: The new platform version adopts the latest standards and .NET libraries, significantly boosting its performance.

3. Customization and Accessibility

• Widgets: These are new types of form fields that present contextual data in graphical way. Numeric data for the widget to display can be entered directly or retrieved using business rules, SQL queries, or constants.
• More Flexibility in Form Design: The new version also introduces new capabilities in form design, allowing for better customization to specific needs without affecting form consistency.
• WCAG 2.2: The WEBCON BPS 2024 version complies with WCAG 2.2, ensuring accessibility for all users, including those with disabilities, by optimizing keyboard navigation, contrast ratios, and screen reader compatibility.

4. New Mobile Application

One of the main announcements for the 2024 version was the expansion of mobile application functionality. Many of these enhancements debuted early during release updates to the 2023 version of WEBCON BPS. The mobile apps for Android and IOS have been completely rewritten. Its user experience is a lot more friendly, and it includes several new features:

• Quick login using a PIN and/or biometrics
• Push Notifications
• Trusted Devices and Authorization via Mobile App
• Support for QR Codes
• Recording voice memos and taking photos directly inside a form

Geographical location registration and new context variables

The new version supports the use of location data in several ways. The location where tasks were executed will become part of the automatically maintained audit history for any form. Moreover, location data can be used to fill in form fields and as a security measure to determine whether a task can be performed or a new workflow can be started.

Path transition authorization

WEBCON BPS 2024 can use trusted device-based authorization to ensure that the intended user (and not someone else at their desk while a form is open) is the one who completes a task.

5. New Features for Application Creators and Administrators

• ToDo List: This new functionality enables the creation of task lists in WEBCON BPS Designer Studio, facilitating efficient collaboration between power users and administrators involved in application development.
• Import via Public API: The 2024 version introduces automated import and deployment of application export files via the WEBCON BPS public API, using a registered API application with assigned permissions and a new console application for parameter definition.
• Data Source Reports in Dashboards: Users of the latest version will be able to define data sources for dashboards, which can then be used by independent reports and objects with aggregated field values created within them. .