In this issue....
- Automate-Your-Workflow Blog - A Growing Industry in a Sagging Economy?
- Major Enhancement Notification - Coming Soon - New User Interface
- New Customer Announcement - European Telecom Company Automates Internal Processes
Automate Your Workflow Blog
HighOrbit associates speculate why our company and the BPM industry continues to grow during such tough economic times. Find out what we think and provide us your feedback.
Major Enhancement Notification
COMING SOON!
New User Interface
The User/Web Interface redevelopment project is nearing completion and has an expected release date by late May. Most of 2008 focused on the back-end structure and functional enhancements.
Highlighted releases in 2008 included:
- Unicode Compliance (Internationalization)
- Field Level Help on Standard Forms
- Active Delays & Gates Dashboards
- Improved Search Capabilities
- Enhanced Proxy Settings
2009 has been spent on finishing the Web 2.0 look and feel. The project's goal was to enhance the user experience while providing a technical structure we could build upon for future improvements. User Experience: Overall the entire user interface has been modernized, including the navigation, forms, and task list views. Highlights include improved graphics, the ability to retract the left-side Process List and Multi-Format Task List options (original, single line user, single line supervisor, printer friendly). We could describe it in detail, but it is probably best to just take a look. Click the links below to view sample images. Single Line Task List with Process List Exposed Dual Line Task List with Process List Retracted Standard HighOrbit Task/Form Technology Overview: IT professionals will be interested in the environment. The new user/web interface utilizes database driven Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Adopting CSS meant we immediately benefited with cleaner code, faster page loads, and better accessibility. Most importantly it provides limitless creativity with respect to future user interface development. It will even provide clients and partners the ability to design there own interface. You can learn more about CSS by visiting W3 Schools at http://www.w3schools.com/Css/default.asp Future Enhancements: This release does not mean all user interface development is completed. Additional features and enhancements are planned over the next 12 months. Some of the major ones to note:
- Admin Wizards for Company, User, and Custom Calendar Set-up
- Tabbed Forms (organize your data elements on user-defined tabs)
- Quick Launch Folder for Manual Start Processes
- Improved Pagination in Search Details
- Exports based on Search Results
- Calendar Task View
- Saved Searches
![]() New Customer Announcement
European Telecom Company Automates Internal Processes
HighOrbit Corporation has signed KPN Telecom BV as a client. KPN, located in Gravenhage, Netherlands, will use HighOrbit's Business Process Management (BPM) automation solution to streamline processes for internal purposes.
"My department, Development & Consultancy Networking," said Leo van den Barselaar, technisch consultant, "provides network solutions for business customers based on functionality that is not included on the standard KPN pricelist. The main goal of the process, which is supported by the HighOrbit BPM tool, is to produce internal proposals, including a global design, cost/impact for building the network and cost/impact for managing the network remotely several years running. Furthermore, the workflow tool will give us the management information we need to improve the process overall."
KPN is the leading telecommunications and ICT service provider in the Netherlands, offering wireline and wireless telephony, internet, and TV to consumers and end-to-end telecom and ICT services to business customers. KPN's subsidiary Getronic operates a global ICT services company with a market leading position in the Benelux, offering end-to-end solutions in infrastructure and network-related IT. In Germany and Belgium, KPN pursues a multi-brand strategy in its mobile operations and holds number three market positions through E-Plus and BASE. KPN provides wholesale network services to third parties and operates an efficient IP-based infrastructure with global scale in international wholesale through iBasis.
According to HighOrbit's Brian Dwyer, the company's BPM solution was developed to give companies greater control over the individual processes they rely on for the successful operation of their business. Clients use the web-based software solution for a diverse set of business processes from human resource management to sales, accounting and IT. "Businesses of any size or shape can benefit from the advantages of workflow automation, including: accountability, control and efficiency. It's easy, fast and affordable," he said.
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