PowerFlow from Axceler delivers robust yet intuitive graphical workflow capabilities to Lotus Notes and Domino environments. Unlike other workflow products, PowerFlow allows you to easily add business logic to any Domino application without altering the application’s design. And with its graphical interface, PowerFlow eliminates the need for complex LotusScript coding, shortening the initial implementation time.
As your business needs evolve, PowerFlow lets you easily implement changes by simply dragging and dropping new steps or conditions into the workflow. PowerFlow offers built-in dynamic process modeling and dynamic person reassignment features to make changes simply and quickly.
PowerFlow also reports on business process statistics so that even business users can understand the PowerFlow process diagram to reduce bottlenecks and keep your business running smoothly.
Build it however you want - for Notes, for the Web, with templates, or from scratch. Now, wherever you would have to write script simply leave it blank.
Designers define the automated activity for each application as a visual "state diagram."
An event driven server add-in task then automatically reacts to events in the application database. Based on your visual definition the engine:
"Powerflow provides an exceptional set of tools for designing and managing workflow activities for any application built in Domino. Whether you use the Notes client, browser clients, or both, Powerflow-enabled workflow can run on your application. No changes to the application are required. You don't have to add any special agents, forms, or other elements to your design. This makes adding and managing workflow clean."
Any Database Design
Workflow enable any Lotus Notes/ Lotus Domino application database without changing any of its existing design elements. PowerFlow supports 100% of Notes and Domino application functionality.
Any Business Process
Automate any business process from ad hoc to structured with the PowerFlow state diagram. PowerFlow supports check-in/check-out, escalation, and any other workflow process needed to automate your application.
Any Person Database
Use any organizational structure with the PowerFlow hierarchy. Whether you maintain your organization hierarchy in a relational database or the Lotus Domino directory, PowerFlow automatically synchronizes it with the PowerFlow hierarchy.
Graphical Visual Designer
Simply draw out your business processes and organizational structure for applications with the PowerFlow Visual Workbench, no scripting required.
Dynamic Person Reassignment
Reassign work to new users automatically when there is a personnel change. PowerFlow dynamically reassigns documents so no work is left unattended.
Dynamic Process Modeling
Change rules and routes without changing the end-user interface. The new process takes effect when reactivated and documents already in process will follow the new workflow from their current state onward.
Automatic Notification
Send custom e-mails with doclinks or URLs to notify participants of waiting documents for their review.
Built-In Audit Trails
Visually identify how each document flowed, including who acted, when, and under what conditions.
Customizable Statistics Reporting
See performance times by person, by state and for the workflow as a whole for any documents in your application to identify bottlenecks.
Surrogate Support
Reassign work to others during unavailable work times.
Database Extensibility
Reach data from all the databases in your environment within your workflow with Axceler Notrix.
Success Stories
ABB Corporate Research
ABBdecided to automate their processes using Axceler PowerFlow because "it simplifies development of new workflow applications and is a very straightforward tool to use," according to Kjell Lindstrom, Assistant Manager.
Avery Dennison
Avery Dennison wanted to maximize their investment in Lotus Notes. When they assessed the amount of workflow their application required, Axceler PowerFlow was the obvious answer.
Bank of Montreal
Using PowerFlow, Bank of Montreal realized 75% or better reduction in turnaround time -- from two to three hours down to about 30 minutes each month. As a result, users can begin the process later and employ the time for other urgent tasks.
Bank One
"PowerFlow is a perfect fit with the LMS, providing Bank One with the ability to follow each customer lead through different stages and to automate some of the essential steps," said Albery. "Without PowerFlow, handling 200-300 leads in a day would have taken considerable effort and organization. PowerFlow eliminates the 'daunting' quality of that task, and channels customers to the correct mortgage representatives, at the right time, in order to quickly process their information."
CompHealth
CompHealth chose Axceler PowerFlow because it helped them design, develop and implement their application in the limited timeframe available. Plus, Axceler PowerFlow offered increased security of the Notes application to ensure only the people who were approvers could see sensitive personnel information as it flowed through the process.
Hella KG Hueck & Co
Hella's automated Change Request workflow has reduced the time to process an engineering change by 70%, enabling enabling faster production of new products. Axceler's tools provided Hella with easy to use graphical interfaces that proved to be a successful alternative to coding. Maintenance can be done in a short time frame, since changes are done graphically instead of the normal code-debug-test-recode cycle. Finding Axceler's tools so easy to use, Hella has enabled seven additional applications including one to manage new product ideas.
MasterCard International
According to Tom Jolls, a senior engineer/consultant, "All of the backend workflow functionality could have been completed using LotusScript but it would have easily doubled or even tripled the time and budget. In addition, as with any project, additional requirements were added during the development phase, and they were much easier to implement in PowerFlow than in LotusScript. PowerFlow's ease of maintenance proved to be significant as well." By using PowerFlow, the budget and schedule were met and the new project design eliminated the need for time consuming LotusScript.
TDK
"Axceler Tools presented us with a solution that was compatible with the platform used by other TDK subsidiary sites, as well as with our plans to upgrade and enhance our existing Lotus Notes and Domino environment," commented Mark Jorgensen, Director of Marketing Communications, TDK Semiconductor. "We ultimately chose Axceler for its ability to integrate data from multiple sources and to deliver information via one secure browser. In addition, the Axceler solution allows us to facilitate document approval prior to Web publishing through workflow processes."