Tailor-made applications
In record time
With no risk
BUSINESS FIRST helps you define your processes graphically and describe how the different steps are linked together to take a case from start to finish. For each step, the roles of the people involved, the data as well as the deadlines are defined for the task to be executed.
Easily understandable by everyone, the description can easily be extended to take into account new features. It serves as an efficient communication tool between engineers and end-users.
BUSINESS FIRST provides the user with the full W4 experience in terms of human workflow and BPM, including comprehensive options for describing all kinds of processes, from the simplest to the most sophisticated ones.
By formalizing business processes, applications become collaborative: as well as fulfilling the need for userfriendliness and meeting individual workstation constraints, they automate the relationship between individuals and the way in which they interact each day with their application.
In order to integrate data more quickly, BUSINESS FIRST allows you to explore and automatically incorporate the different data sources available within the company:
- Relational Database Management Systems
- Miscellaneous files
- Electronic content management systems
- Company directory systems
- …
BUSINESS FIRST also allows you to modify the data set or to create new ones
From this physical data, a logical model matching the projected real world data structure can be adjusted and fine-tuned. In this way, the designer simultaneously organizes the data handled by the end user and prepares the layout of the different screens that will subsequently be displayed dynamically when the application is put into use.
The graphical user interface (GUI) covers the application screens, the transitions that allow you to navigate between these screens (based on the designed navigational tree) and the choice of actions offered to the user. By default, the GUI is automatically generated from the previously modeled data and processes.
Then, the designer refines the different screens so that they fit progressively with each user’s individual context.
Graphical components are available (navigation tree, predefined forms, reporting objects…) along with their controls (sort, filter, print, and add features) and are filled with the data that needs to be visualized and managed. This approach maximizes productivity while at the same time minimizing associated risks.
The BUSINESS FIRST engine orchestrates the defined transitions by offering the right action to the right persons at the right time in their work schedule:
- It watches for declared deadlines and triggers alarms should they be needed
- It offers full traceability of all events with a comprehensive activity log and a graphical follow-up capability
- It dynamically creates the screens as they are requested
- It offers consistent transitions between the screens according to the pre-designed navigation tree
- It ensures synchronization with the company IT system and with third party systems via connectors (data, documents) that are available with BUSINESS FIRST
