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The K2 Server is the principle server for running the processes that are deployed by the various designers.
Business analysts, subject matter experts and IT developers can all make significant contributions to the creation and viability of a final solution. K2 understands the importance of collaboration and provides design environments for all types of users, regardless of their technical expertise.
Your team is using SharePoint to maintain all the product collateral being produced by your company, but you need a robust process for approving and publishing the content to the right place. With the K2 Designer for SharePoint, you have access to a Web-based environment that makes it easy to create a process that meets your needs.
Your company needs to build a centralized employee review solution that reaches across multiple systems to gather relevant employee data. With K2 Studio, a no-code, Office-like designer, you have the tools you need (like access to Web services) to build applications that pull information from your finance system and your HR database, without having to write code.
Developers are more efficient when they have familiar tools to build their applications. K2 Designer for Visual Studio is a powerful extension to Visual Studio that provides access to wizards, business logic and routing capabilities needed to build K2 solutions, along with familiar Visual Studio capabilities, like source control and debugging tools.
Every organization has processes, like employee on boarding, that include unique business logic aimed at triggering chains of decision-making events. Managing these rules and policies within your processes can be difficult without the right tools. K2 understands the importance of business logic, so we give you a wide range of features to ensure the solutions you build solve your problems perfectly.
Inline Functions for Business Logic
When your manager gets that e-mail to approve your vacation request, she needs to know how many vacation days you have left, and the dates need to be formatted correctly so she knows you'll be gone March 10, not Oct. 3. K2 Inline Functions will perform calculations and text formatting as part of your process and can be saved for reuse, all without writing code.
Your employees want a clear view of what needs to be done and when it needs to be completed. They want tasks that are easy to access and act upon, and they don't want to learn new, complicated systems. K2 has the answer.
Task Central — The K2 Worklist
It's easier to keep track of everything if it's all in one place. The K2 Worklist provides users with a single view of all their assigned tasks, across all processes in the K2 environment. Users can modify and complete these tasks directly from the Worklist — a personalized to-do list, only better.
The help desk just told you they can't find the ticket you submitted almost six weeks ago, and you'll have to resubmit the request. With K2's improved process web parts you can see exactly when you submitted the ticket and who it's currently assigned to - no resubmission needed. K2 process web parts show you details of all process requests you've submitted and requests you're currently working on. The data can be filtered on criteria like submission date, process name and current status.
All-around visibility is critical for every business. Making that information incredibly easy to access and understand is where K2 delivers professional-grade power.
Your finance director wants to keep track of the average monthly total for all expense claims submitted each quarter, but the IT team is in the middle of a large project and can't build the necessary reports. The K2 Report Designer is so easy to use, even non-technical users can build reports that filter data across systems and deliver precise, relevant information.
K2 View Flow
Your help desk system for new hires, terminations and transfers is working well; and you know this because K2 View Flow provides a graphical, real-time view into the status of your processes. For every action taken along the workflow path, audit information is available, so users know what decisions were made and who made them.
Full visibility with K2 Process Portals
Your customer support system directly contributes to customer satisfaction and impacts renewed sales, so keeping turnaround time down is critical. K2 reports, available in the K2 Process Portal, provide process insight that allows you to determine the overall performance of the support department or a single individual. With K2 Process Portals and the sophisticated set of available reports, technical and non-technical employees can now benchmark people and workflows 24/7.
With K2's process scheduler, recurring processes, like monthly sales forecasting, can be set to automatically start on the first Tuesday of each month, for example, ensuring that you'll never miss a deadline again.
Administrative process approval
The marketing team at your business has created a new process to approve and manage content published to your company's public Web site, but instead of updating the content, the process is set to delete everything. Luckily, with K2's administrative process approval functionality, you'll catch the mistake and fix the problem before the process goes live and you're left with a Web site void of content. Feel comfortable letting business users create their own processes, knowing you'll have a chance to check them before they go live.
You have implemented a new version of a K2-based solution to automate the delivery of Web- and print-based content, but unfortunately it contains an error. Luckily, with K2's version management, if a mistake is found in a process that has already been deployed, an administrator can easily move back to a previous version of the process until the error can be fixed and the process re-published.
K2 Process Management tools
Your management team decided that all new customer on boarding requests need to be approved by a sales manager and the finance department. K2 gives you the tools to update a process with new requirements even after it has been deployed and is running in your production environment.
Flexible process and task security options
K2 provides the ability to set rights both at the process level as well as at the action-level so that sensitive tasks and information, like employee reviews and salary information are only seen by the right people as part of a relevant process.
K2 Package and Deployment
K2 Package and Deployment provides the ability to package K2 artifacts such as SmartObjects, Forms, Views and Workflows from one environment (the source) into a package file stored locally or on a network drive. This package is then opened in another K2 environment (the target) where some or all of the artifacts in the package are deployed.
As of blackpearl release 4.6.7, K2 Package and Deployment is no longer a separately available K2 component. Instead, it is now bundled as part of K2 blackpearl. For detailed information, refer to the K2 Package and Deployment documentation.
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