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K2 blackpearl helps people build process-driven applications – fast. |
Process-driven applications span employees, departments, organizations and line-of-business systems. They can be set up to automate and manage business processes — such as document approval, vacation requests and inventory tracking — or pull together business processes, people, services, information and systems into a single application that improves business efficiency.
Then, what’s been built can be used like building blocks to assemble new applications.
K2 blackpearl was created to be simple, so that non-technical people can contribute to and participate in the application-building process; and flexible, because business needs constantly shift; and fast, because time is money.
K2 blackpearl helps people create or amend process-driven applications through wizards and other graphical tools; and in most cases, no code is required. This simplicity and familiarity allows non-technical users to actually design, build and change these applications, rather than just trying to convey their needs to IT.
Because the actual definitions behind an application are not tied to the canvas or tool that created it, IT and others in the organization can work together on the same process, using skill-appropriate tools.
Envision it today. Build it today. Release it today. Change it when you need to. That’s the vision behind K2 blackpearl and process-driven applications.
Process-driven applications are flexible. Visual tools for process design, rules, forms and reports allow stakeholders to easily change or adapt the applications themselves.
Process-driven applications aggregate. They pull together business processes, people, services, information and systems simply — without unnecessary complexity.
Process-driven applications can be specific to a need. But they are not necessarily independent of each other. They can share portions of process flows, rules and policies, business entities (customers, products, invoices, etc.) forms, reports, services, infrastructure, and line-of-business information.
A process-driven application can be a business process management (BPM) solution. It can be used to collaboratively model, build, deploy and manage business processes. It can be used to automate an expense claim or provision new customer accounts.
A process-driven application can be a composite application. It can be an application that brings together information, rules and policies and functional capabilities from various line-of-business systems into a single application. It can be used to build a CRM solution, manage inventory or track customer activity. A process-driven application can combine elements of a BPM solution and composite applications - allowing people to build applications that are supported by an automated process or set of processes. A process-driven application can be built to take orders and manage fulfillment or manage an HR department with processes for requesting reviews, tracking performance and managing employee information.
K2 blackpearl is about empowering those who know the business’s needs best; it is about reducing the load on IT resources; and it is about ending up with on-the-mark applications that allow people to complete their work in less time with fewer mistakes.
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| Document Title | K2 blackpearl Product Documentation: Installation and Configuration Guide |
| Product Version | 4.6.10 (4.12060.1690.0) |
| Product Version | June 2015 |
