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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3 AgilePoint Driven Solution

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5 Demo
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

Microsoft
2007 Business
Process
Alliance
BPM
Growing List of Recognitions
from Leading IT Analysts

BPM Cool Vendor 2007

(Apr 2007)

New!

Best Model­driven
BPMS for Process­
BPM Magic Quadrant
based SOA Composition
2007 ­ Visionary
(Aug 2008)
(Dec 2007)
Growing List of Recognitions
from Leading IT Analysts

Forrester Human Centric

BPMS for .NET 2007 ­
Strong Performer
(Dec 2007)

New!
Microsoft Business
Process Alliance ­
Butler Group
Charter Member
Technical Audit
(Sep 2008)
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Why take care of BPM?

The pressure to become cheaper, better and faster and

provide a whole new level of customer­oriented 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
 Main Issues today

Business Technical

• Change is constant ­ How do we • Business driven process versioning

make self­adaptive, smarter • Rapid adaption of rule changes in a
implementations that are better able production environment and on
to cope? running processes.
• Solutions today are mainly
developer oriented.
Conclusion

Gap Between Business (Thinking Business Wise) and IT (Thinking Technical and
Deployment Wise); both having different objective and target !
 The SharePoint Opportunity

SharePoint is driving business solutions

From small DMS to complex business solutions (HR, Sales, Finance … )
Logical evolution – from supporting individuals to departments to organizations

… but … creating new risks …

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)

.
 Picking the Right
Workflow/BPM & More for
SharePoint
Do you see far enough?
SharePoint Workflow
WF Based Solutions Model Driven BPMS
Designer
High

Workflow/BPM
Static Sequential Solutions based
Structured on or extending
Automation SharePoint/
Windows

Time & Cost

Workflow

Business Agility - dynamic BPM

Some dynamics • Run-time Process Mgmt
• Visual & Governance • Process Migration
• Dynamic role-based • Dynamic Rollback
activities • Dynamic Re-route
• Delegation & Re-assign • Partial Rework
• Parallel & Dynamic • Case Mgmt, Ad-hoc process
Approval • etc.
• etc.
Low

Scalability & Broadness of

Functionality
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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

• Code­based  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 code­based executable that incurs engineering
cycle (coding, QA/testing, etc.) for change request from business

• Model­Driven  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
 The only right approach:
AGILITY
Business Assets
 Assemble reusable components as
process vs. custom coding
 Based on open standards and
approach; not proprietary

Self-Adaptive
 When required, change can be
adjusted on­the­fly in real time

Infrastructure Integration
 Leveraging XML capabilities to make
self­describing transactions possible
rather than static fixed legacy
exchanges
BPM – Full Lifecycle Implementation
Improve Model Model Process

Delivery
Agility
Analyze On MS Automate
Results SharePoint Solution

Monitor the
execution
How AgilePoint Can be Applied
as Process­based Microsoft
SOA Composition SharePoint / MOSS
Environment

AgilePoint BPMS
Sollutions
As Embedded ASP .NET
Workflow/BPM
Engine

SmartClient
(Windows Application)
AgilePoint - SharePoint

Loosely couple architecture

Supporting from single box environments up to distribute

and clustered SharePoint Collaboration Farms

Allow you to delivery end­end processes, not only

SharePoint content !
­ Incorporation of other solutions, environments – including ERP,
CRM, DB …
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
Win WF .NET/[Link]

MS Dynamics
Axapta, CRM, etc.
 How AgilePoint Works
An SOA-aligned Model-Driven
BPMS
Web Service AgileParts

‘The Cloud’ Visual Studio

Process-enabled
Application Servers SOA Parts and
Metadata-driven Common
IT assets Services
Abstraction
Framework

BizTalk Orchestration
BizTalk Server
Legacy
How AgilePoint Works
An SOA-aligned Model-Driven
BPMS ASP.N
ET

Automation
Collaboration
Orchestration
Smart
Client
Model & Composition

Monitoring
Run-time Dash Board

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 Process­based IT Utilization
­ Adaptive Process­based Business Integration
­ Code­Free Process Automation
­ Code­Free Reconfiguration of Process­based Application
­ Business Agility

Create Sustainable Operational Success Through Process Excellence

­ Create & Automate New Process: up to 3x faster than current
­ Improve & Re­Automate Existing Process: up to 10x faster than current
­ Enable Process­based Continuous Business Performance Improvement
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. value­add application
development
­ BPM enables control over the process, wherever it resides
Explodes technology stovepipes & silos
­ Leads the way to end­to­end automation
Creates reusable process patterns
­ Once model the process, can implement change rapidly
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Overview Demo

Scenario 1: Scenario 2:

Budget Request Form Proposals

(InfoPath – Form Server – (SharePoint ­ AgilePoint)
SharePoint – AgilePoint)
Process Migration
AgileNotify
AgileMonitor
Data Tracking
Data Population