About K2 blackpearl

K2 blackpearl is an extensive, feature-rich and powerful platform for building process-driven applications across enterprises. With features like extensibility, powerful integration capability and a scalable architecture, K2 blackpearl is appropriate for organizations ranging from small to global enterprises.

K2 blackpearl's main features are:

Create process-driven applications, fast

The visual design tools provided with K2 blackpearl allow process designers and developers to rapidly assemble process-driven applications that integrate with many business systems, all without requiring code.

Enterprise-capable workflow engine

K2 blackpearl is an enterprise-level platform and supports distributed installation, scaling and load-balancing. K2 can also leverage the capabilities of the Microsoft Windows Server platform and SQL Server, both of which can be configured to support massive enterprise-level implementations.

Powerful task management

K2 blackpearl provides an enterprise-capable workflow engine. K2 blackpearl has built-in support for simple and complex workflow task management that includes routing work to users, groups and roles, redirection and delegation of tasks, support for mobile task lists, out-of-office capabilities and even support for more complex user task assignment, such as voting scenarios or dynamic evaluation of task participants. The escalation capability provided with K2 blackpearl helps to ensure that tasks are completed on-time and within SLA requirements.

Reporting, Business Intelligence and Business Activity Monitoring

Reporting and BI are very important in any enterprise-level workflow platform. K2 blackpearl automatically stores workflow history and auditing information, then exposes this information through standard reporting capabilities. K2 blackpearl also supports custom reporting to meet BI requirements. These reports are exposed through standard web-based interfaces, or can even be integrated into other applications for a seamless user experience. In addition, the K2 SmartObjects component allows for custom ADO.NET-based reports to combine reporting data from workflow and external systems into one report. K2’s workflow engine offers real-time visibility for running processes, allowing organizations to perform real-time Business Activity Monitoring.

Extendible and customizable

K2 blackpearl’s pluggable architecture allows organizations to extend the platform to meet business or technology requirements (for example, adding support for non-standard authentication mechanisms or creating custom wizards to allow process designers to integrate with bespoke systems without writing code). The customization capabilities allow for configuration-based tweaking of the product components to meet requirements, for example changing the logging output or using K2 APIs to write custom applications that integrate with K2 blackpearl. The provided APIs expose K2 blackpearl so that developers have free reign to use code (if required) in workflows, to build user interfaces, implement reporting and BI requirements, build system management and administration utilities and more.

Extensive integration capabilities

K2 blackpearl has extensive integration capabilities. K2 provides several out-of-the-box wizards and services that allow the platform to integrate with various common Microsoft enterprise technologies such as Microsoft SharePoint, Active Directory, Exchange Server, Dynamics CRM, SQL Server and Reporting Services. K2 blackpearl also offers standard support for Salesforce, web services and more, and the K2 SmartObjects technology can enable K2 blackpearl to integrate with almost any other technology. K2 blackpearl can also expose itself as a resource to other enterprise systems through standard interfaces such as SOA-based interfaces, so that the platform can be integrated with other solutions and systems as well. This makes it easy for developers to consume K2 blackpearl in their applications and leverage the capabilities offered by K2 blackpearl.