WEBCON BPS a new face of business transformation

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1 WEBCON BPS a new face of business transformation SharePoint is a platform, SharePoint is a solution, SharePoint is a challenge. WEBCON BPS is the next level. 1

2 The background Most of the decision-makers face the same question: how do we want our company to work? The answers are basically the same: efficient, fast, clever, and so on. The next question is: what do we do to make that happen? Invest in IT. What do we invest in? SharePoint. And then SharePoint is implemented, users get adjusted to it, use the platform with increasing confidence and wider scope every day. As a result, they demand more and more as well. Advanced workflows, forms, integration, notifications, scanning, automation, BPM, DMS, custom business applications, etc. Here comes the next crucial question: how to develop the platform further? Custom.NET development? It requires a solid team of (preferably) in-house developers. Separate apps to satisfy each and every demand? Integration and maintenance is a nightmare. Is there an alternative? The New Frontier What if there could be just one solution to satisfy most of the business needs? What if implementation of any business application took 80% less time? What if the solution looks like SharePoint but brings whole new level of functionality? What if exceeding business needs is actually possible? What if the alternative is already there? SharePoint itself redefines the concept of collaborative work. It transforms how people work on daily basis. But the transformation to be completed, requires advanced measures that allows to use SharePoint up to its full extent. This is where WEBCON Business Process Suite comes in. 2

3 The new quality WEBCON BPS provides all means to effectively respond to existing and emerging business needs within one, comprehensive platform based on SharePoint. Whenever something for yesterday or very company-specific is required, the system will deliver. At the same time, allowing not to worry about separate solutions for workflows, forms, connectivity, documents templates, integration with Outlook, and much more. It s all already onboard, so you can focus on your actual work. No more custom code and days spent on browsing through StackExchange. No time wasted to research and attend sales-pitches of vendors who are capable of solving 5-10% of your daily challenges at a time. With WEBCON BPS you have just one platform to provide solutions you need. Whether it s a simple approval workflow, or a complex business application that involves thousands of employees, requires access via mobile and Outlook you are covered. We found WEBCON BPS intuitive and able to not only route and configure as demanded, but to provide sophisticated features ready for use in the advanced global implementation with our dealer and distributor network around the World. Whitney Skaling, CEO at Soilmoisture 3

4 The ease of design With WEBCON BPS everything is in one place and available at your fingertips. Workflow designer, forms designer, data model creator are all just one application. No need to switch between different interfaces and wondering how to put it all together. Additionally, zero knowledge of any proprietary scripting language is required. All you need is a plan in your head, basic idea on how the system works (graphical designer makes it easy) and a common knowledge of T-SQL, to provide any additional conditions, validations, etc. The cherry on the cake? Forms. They inherit SharePoint look & feel settings, making the solution automatically adjusted to how your SharePoint environment already looks like. Plus unified form structure ensures that each new business application is very easy to adapt to users already know what to expect and what to do. Result? You can focus on what matters instead of endless sugarcoating forms design. [Custom] development based on SharePoint requires extensive development abilities. Unfortunately, creating such competences is not a simple task, primarily because of the necessary time. In this context, the use of BPM platform provides, in many cases, the technological safety and the ability to deliver functional solutions with less effort. Krzysztof Patla, CIO at Rovese Group 4

5 The unmatchable quickness of delivery WEBCON BPS does not offer a single feature that would contain a word deploy. Simply because the deployment process does not exist. You just click Save, go to SharePoint and immediately see the results. There is no need to perform very thorough analysis lasting months before preparing the solution. The system allows to modify your business applications as you go. There is no risk of losing 50-70% of your project because it lasted too long and requirements changed. You may simply show your progress as you go, in any given time. Plus, whenever a need to introduce modifications into already implemented solutions emerges, you may do that instantly. Result? Carrying out projects is 5 times faster. One of the biggest strengths of WEBCON BPS is the fact that it allows to create a simple business application within one afternoon. Meanwhile hardcoding a dedicated application for the same purpose would take weeks and consume considerable amount of financial resources Marek Witkowski, CIO at Suedzucker Poland 5

6 The future proofing Why to invest in a comprehensive platform of which you may initially use around 50% of features? Because your company will grow. Employees demands and expectations will grow. To have everything running smoothly, you cannot come up short-handed. Instead of developing custom solutions (probably months of programming) or purchasing new application (research, demos, procurement, installation, integration, training), you ll be able to use what you already have. The same platform, same interface, new range of possibilities available right away. At the same time, WEBCON BPS is being constantly improved and enriched with new functionalities, ensuring users always get top of the shelf features responding to their actual needs. Result? No need to think what to do next. All you need is already onboard. We implemented WEBCON BPS to optimize just one process. As it quickly turned out, the system can do a lot more and we decide to move all of our processes there. Marek Witkowski, CIO at Suedzucker Poland 6

7 The transformation Among many other things, SharePoint redefined the concept of collaborative work. It allowed to make a transition from single files flying around the company via s, to libraries and list where all documents are neatly sorted and accessible to all authorized employees. But to gain competitive advantage and streamline internal processes, companies tend to require more and more. One of the biggest advantage of SharePoint is the fact it allows to build a whole lot on top of it. There are multiple ways of doing so, including custom development and dedicated applications. The goal we set for our system was to make clients state: this is how always we wanted our company to work. As a result WEBCON BPS offers an additional layer, that one hand provides easy to learn tool to deliver desired outcome, but at the same time, does not drastically limit the possibilities. It allows to create business solutions to meet specific needs, but does not require months or years to do so. Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. William A. Foster Visit us booth 31&32 or contact us directly at office@webcon.com to see how WEBCON BPS helps to take SharePoint to the next level. 7