Workpoint 3.4.2 Now Available

New Release Delivers on Customer Enhancements & Industry Demands

(Omaha, Neb. July 9, 2007) Workpoint LLC, a leading provider of business process management (BPM) technology, today unveiled its latest product release. Workpoint Release 3.4.2 offers significant enhancements to its Gateway, as well as an entirely new event framework, schemas and milestone functions. The release represents the latest in Workpoint's mission to deliver comprehensive BPM unmatched by its high volume, high throughput capabilities.

"In this release, we maintained a tight focus on delivering both customer requests and industry demands," said Ruth Nimrod, CTO, Workpoint. "Enhancements to Workpoint's Gateway alone provide users with rich functionality capable of seamlessly customizing their BPM visual interface."

Workpoint's Gateway provides a Web-based view into executing process instances and offers a complete BPM portal front-end application. The Gateway portal enables business process analysts to design customized Web pages for human-centric tasks. The Gateway can retrieve filtered or unfiltered work queues, perform manual tasks, view real-time instance life-cycles, as well as individual, management and business activity monitoring (BAM) reports. For this release, the Gateway for Workpoint's Java™ version was completely rewritten to leverage standard Java Server Pages (JSP) tag libraries. Workpoint also built a Web application using JSP tag libraries and the Spring Framework.

"These enhancements allow users to customize the Gateway to meet their specific business needs and they also enable users to integrate functionality into existing Web applications," said Nimrod. "This is critical functionality, as it further enables enterprise flexibility and agility."

The new release also offers a new event framework. "Our customers wanted outside applications to be notified when a Workpoint event occurred," said Nimrod. "To address this, we added an event subsystem that easily communicates Workpoint events to the 'outside world'." Workpoint can now be configured to communicate with numerous event drivers to notify an outside entity about events such as orchestration state changes, generated milestones, exceptions, library modifications or generic user-defined events.

With Workpoint 3.4.2, business process models and executing instances can now easily attach an XML schema. Using this new feature, an executing instance can retrieve information from within the associating DOM or business object. Attaching an XML schema to the process model formalizes the grammar of the business object and enables the persistence and interchange of data across heterogeneous systems.

Workpoint 3.4.2 also offers a new milestone library. The library provides a new method of communication between executing instances or within the same executing instance. Workpoint's delay task and alert functions have been enhanced to wait for a milestone, even if the milestone was generated from another executing instance. This functionality allows users to define and track milestones within executing instances, so that an action may be taken when a particular event of interest occurs.

"Providing an event framework along with schemas and milestones allows organizations to achieve true enterprise agility and end-to-end enterprise orchestration," said Nimrod. "Workpoint 3.4.2 ultimately enables enterprises to leverage the next generation of BPM."

Contact Information

Carie Maguire

402.964.1996

cmaguire@workpoint.com

Jul 09, 2007 - 04:12 PM