An enhanced Workpoint 3.4.2 is now available

The latest release of our BPM product, Workpoint has been unveiled. This is a cumulative patch release that includes all reported customer issues and new features.

“In this release, we are delivering on both customer requests and industry demands,” said Ruth Nimrod, Workpoint. “Enhancements to Workpoint’s Graphical User Interface for Modeling and Managing Process objects provide our customers the ability to quickly construct Composite processes. Our customers now have the ability to gain a competitive edge by easily creating new BPM-enabled offerings with Workpoint.”

Here is a sneak-peek of the new features:

Workpoint’s Designer is the most visible component of Workpoint. The Designer is used to graphically model and define business process models, including all the activities and artifacts within them (tasks, orchestration routing, rules, etc.). This release provides users with rich functionality capable of seamlessly customizing the Modeling and Managing processes and process instances. Additions here include upgrading our HTML Editor used to create customized process initiation and work task forms. Other new Form features include customized Buttons, Menu selections and Dialogs supporting the requirement to incorporate your standards during form generation and overriding the supplied features.

Solution providers and Enterprise customers are able to provide their users with a perspective supporting their role with ease. Business user’s select personalized preferences such as a Swim Lane construct with a palette of pre-fashioned artifacts geared toward their needs. The artifacts can be categorized to support multiple departments streamlining the presentation and available artifacts by user preferences and security enabling the enterprise to personalize views based on roles such as job descriptions. Solution provider product consumers gain the ability to enhance the standard processes provided to meet the requirements and policies of their specific enterprise while allowing the solution provider the ability to offer artifacts integrated in their solution giving them a competitive edge.

Completion codes provide a new rule-based definition geared toward performance allowing the modeler to drive the outgoing orchestration by calculating a code on the task being performed while simplifying the design setup by eliminating the need rules for each outbound destination. The task ‘code’ can be driven by the application or selected by the user allowing for form navigation wizards. The ability to enforce orchestration paths has been implemented to force the execution of the entire process and to ensure no task is left behind.

A new work queue has been created for tasks, users can now access tasks in an Available, Claimed, On-Hold, Canceled or Completed queues. The new queue for On-Hold tasks allows the user to claim work knowing the task cannot be completed immediately and set it to a hold status. This new queue reduces noise in the work queues currently being processed.

Performance improvements have been made within the engine and applet loading enabling automated processes to be completed more rapidly. In some instances a process may be completed within one transaction even though multiple nodes are processed. This new feature, the orchestration manager, automates the auto-assignment of tasks; auto-redirect process instances, and supports wizard screen navigation. Orchestration Manager enables the task to be manipulated during execution to drive any orchestration requirements needed without additional latency.

Dec 18, 2009 - 11:38 PM