Earlier this year, Gartner put out an article talking about how Rules Engine within Workflow/BPM process automation. We all know in today's landscape of tasks, assignments, workflow/sub-workflows, the need for automating business processes is greater than ever.
Recently Sawtooth Automation decided to upgrade their offering by integrating FlowWright into their solution. Sawtooth automates the production of dairy farm feed for feeding cows. Dairy farm feed consists of many types of liquids, hay and vitamin supplements. Making feed is like baking a cake, you have a recipe and the recipe is executed using a combination of hardware and software. Just as you would bake a cake, ingredient quantities change based on number of people you are making the cake for.
Harold Engstrom sat down with NoCodeDev as a continuation of their series of interviews with executives in the low and no code development world. Harold comes from the workflow software and business process automation industry. The genesis of FlowWright follows a common story of the workflow software industry. After many years of experience serving clients by developing robust industrial manufacturing automation solutions as a systems integrator, Harold and the team decided to roll their own platform to quickly build comprehensive business automation solutions for their customers that work across the enterprise beyond the factory floor.
You see your doctor, and the doctor says you have high cholesterol and need medication. The doctor's office sends off your prescription for cholesterol medication to the pharmacy. You get a call from the Pharmacy and the medication is ready to be picked up. This process used to be a couple of days, but now with workflow technology you can pick it up in less than an hour.
As the technology industry involves, so do the process flow products. FlowWright adapts to industry change by utilizing component level architecture that loosely couples and intelligently integrates across systems. You might ask what’s all this about, so here it is:
When there is real return on investment (ROI) associated with hitting schedules and milestones, managing complex projects can be risky and stressful for companies. Examples of such projects are enterprise resource planning (ERP) like SAP or Oracles EBS and planned plant shutdowns and startups. To get projects like these under control, managers need to prioritize planning and address:
FlowWright's workflow designer has gone through many phases of improvement over the years. Our customers are always hungry for new functionality and improvements, and we are glad to provide them with each new version/revision of our software.
The sales team landscape has changed over the last 30 years. We have moved to open concept office lay-outs, virtual staff, and into integrating technology into the sales process. We have given reps and managers more & more tools all with the expectation that these investments will yield more business. One thing that isn't addressed readily by any solution is ensuring THE ACTUAL SALES PROCESS is followed reliably and efficiently. We share why defining your sales process, and making it repeatable and efficient for every sales team will yield higher revenue.
We are excited to release v9.4.1 of our BPM/BPA workflow technology, Many new enhancements and fixes to v9.4 are included within this update. First, thanks to our customers for pushing the product to the next level, allowing us to add features that will help our current and future customers with their business needs.
Under European Union regulations that went into effect May 25, 2018, businesses need to implement a variety of controls and monitoring of data privacy, and they need to implement a way to do things like: 1) provide customers with an easy way to see what information they have about them, 2) provide a way to correct that information, and 3) provide a way to delete that data (sometimes known as the “right to be forgotten”). The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will make the EU’s already-strong personal privacy protections even stronger. It’s a detailed set of rules, and businesses failing to follow them can be subject to huge fines and penalties.
