Create Dynamic SharePoint Collaborations, Workflows and Applications with No Code

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Create Dynamic SharePoint Collaborations,
Workflows and Applications with No Code

• From IT Agility to Business Agility

• Hans Hantson
• Business Development Manager
• Ascentn EMEA

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Company
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The Business Challenge
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AgilePoint Driven Solution
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Advantages
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Demo
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About Ascentn

• Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Mountain
  View, California
• Global Presence - Offices in N. America, APAC
  (Japan, China, Taiwan), and EMEA (Belgium, Spain)
• Global Support Partner Network (20 countries)
• Founders with 20 years strong domain experience
  in Process, Framework Enterprise Class Workflow
  Mgmt Solution in J2EE.
• Pioneered .NET based Model-Driven BPMS in 2002
• 250 customers span from Global 2000s to SMEs

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Growing List of Recognitions from Leading IT
Analysts
BPM Cool Vendor 2007 (Apr 2007)

New! Best Model-driven BPMS for Process-based
SOA Composition (Aug 2008)
BPM Magic Quadrant 2007 - Visionary (Dec 2007)
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Growing List of Recognitions from Leading IT
Analysts
Forrester Human Centric BPMS for .NET 2007 -
Strong Performer (Dec 2007)

Microsoft Business Process Alliance - Charter
Member
New! Butler Group Technical Audit (Sep 2008)
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The Business Challenge
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AgilePoint Driven Solution
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Advantages
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Why take care of BPM?

• The pressure to become cheaper, better and faster
  and provide a whole new level of
  customer-oriented service.
• Trends which are supporting this shift
• King customer is now a dictator
• Mass production shift to mass customization
• Customer are demanding total solutions
• Industry boundaries are blurring
• Value chains are becoming the unit of competition
• Collaboration and coo petition are replacing
  traditional forms of competition
• Change has become the only certainty

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Main Issues today
Technical
Business

• Business driven process versioning
• Rapid adaption of rule changes in a production
  environment and on running processes.
• Solutions today are mainly developer oriented.

• Change is constant - How do we make
  self-adaptive, smarter implementations that are
  better able to cope?

Gap Between Business (Thinking Business Wise) and
IT (Thinking Technical and Deployment Wise) both
having different objective and target !
Conclusion
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The SharePoint Opportunity
SharePoint is driving business solutions
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From small DMS to complex business solutions
(HR, Sales, Finance ) Logical evolution from
supporting individuals to departments to
organizations
but creating new risks
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Rapid response requirement find ways to work
faster, adapt quickly, and reduce
errors Embedded workflow failures Organizations
having multiple manual processes (human centric
processes) Information exchange between
heterogeneous application (system centric
processes) .
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Picking the Right Workflow/BPM More for
SharePointDo you see far enough?
SharePoint Workflow Designer
WF Based Solutions
Model Driven BPMS
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Workflow/BPM Solutions based on or
extending SharePoint/ Windows Workflow
Static Sequential Structured Automation

• Business Agility - dynamic BPM
• Run-time Process Mgmt
• Process Migration
• Dynamic Rollback
• Dynamic Re-route
• Partial Rework
• Case Mgmt, Ad-hoc process
• etc.

• Some dynamics
• Visual Governance
• Dynamic role-based activities
• Delegation Re-assign
• Parallel Dynamic Approval
• etc.

Low
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Agility is the New Differentiated Competitiveness
Operational excellence is increasingly measured
by process responsiveness (aka agility) rather
than efficiency as a primary metric. - Gartner

• Code-based ? delivers efficiency
• A defined process is automated by an application
  but the process is achieved by traditional
  programming logic i.e. Process model converted
  into code-based executable that incurs
  engineering cycle (coding, QA/testing, etc.) for
  change request from business
• Model-Driven ? delivers efficiency and agility
• Processes is transparent (aka visible) and
  adaptable for at both design time and runtime
  without incurring costly and time consuming
  engineering cycle for every change request

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The only right approach AGILITY
Business Assets

• Assemble reusable components as process vs.
  custom coding
• Based on open standards and approach not
  proprietary

Business Assets
Self-Adaptive

• When required, change can be adjusted on-the-fly
  in real time

Self-Adaptive
Infrastructure Integration
Infrastructure Integration

• Leveraging XML capabilities to make
  self-describing transactions possible rather than
  static fixed legacy exchanges

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BPM Full Lifecycle Implementation
Model Process
Improve Model
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Automate Solution
Analyze Results
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Monitor the execution
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How AgilePoint Can be Applied
Microsoft SharePoint / MOSS
as Process-based SOA Composition Environment
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ASP .NET
As Embedded Workflow/BPM Engine
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SmartClient (Windows Application)
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AgilePoint - SharePoint

• Loosely couple architecture
• Supporting from single box environments up to
  distribute and clustered SharePoint Collaboration
  Farms
• Allow you to delivery end-end processes, not only
  SharePoint content !
• Incorporation of other solutions, environments
  including ERP, CRM, DB

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A Complete BPM SOA Integrated Composite
Environment in Visio to Process-enable the
complete Microsoft Stack
BizTalk/ESB
MOSS/SharePoint
InfoPath/Form Server
Excel Services
Active Directory
Project Server, Exchange
AgilePoint Envision (Visio based)
Open XML
Web Service/ WSE/WCF
.NET/ASP.NET
Win WF
MS Dynamics Axapta, CRM, etc.
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How AgilePoint WorksAn SOA-aligned Model-Driven
BPMS
Web Service AgileParts
The Cloud
Visual Studio
Process-enabled SOA Parts and Common Services
Application Servers
Metadata-driven IT assets Abstraction Framework
BizTalk Orchestration
BizTalk Server
Legacy
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How AgilePoint WorksAn SOA-aligned Model-Driven
BPMS
Monitoring Run-time Dash Board
Model Composition
Webservice, .Net Remoting WCF Based Communication
Process Repository
XPDL
Model-driven BPM Engine (Interpreter model)
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Benefits of AgilePoint BPMS

• Facilitate Creation of Corporate Process Culture
• Effective Communication Knowledge Management
• Better Process Performance
• Six Sigma, EPM, etc.
• Empower Information Worker and Boosts IT
  Effectiveness
• On demand Process-based IT Utilization
• Adaptive Process-based Business Integration
• Code-Free Process Automation
• Code-Free Reconfiguration of Process-based
  Application
• Business Agility
• Create Sustainable Operational Success Through
  Process Excellence
• Create Automate New Process up to 3x faster
  than current
• Improve Re-Automate Existing Process up to 10x
  faster than current
• Enable Process-based Continuous Business
  Performance Improvement

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IT Benefits

• Improves business agility
• Enables a clearer division between IT the
  business
• Clears up the sourcing jigsaw puzzle
• Whether or not to outsource?
• Leads to determining commodity v. value-add
  application development
• BPM enables control over the process, wherever it
  resides
• Explodes technology stovepipes silos
• Leads the way to end-to-end automation
• Creates reusable process patterns
• Once model the process, can implement change
  rapidly

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Overview Demo

• Scenario 1
• Budget Request Form (InfoPath Form Server
  SharePoint AgilePoint)
• AgileNotify
• Data Tracking
• Data Population

• Scenario 2
• Proposals
• (SharePoint - AgilePoint)
• Process Migration
• AgileMonitor

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