Simon James of DST gave what will be my last presentation of AWD Advance (in fact, I have to leave before the end to catch my taxi to the airport), looking at how services and automation are done in the Design Studio in AWD 10. This is a code-free (or code-light) environment for composite application [...]
Also taggedGreat keynote at AWD Advance this morning by Captain Michael Abrashoff, author of It’s Our Ship, a book on leadership; I confess to tearing up a bit when he described how he supported and encouraged the young people who worked for him, and hope that I did a fraction as well when I ran a [...]
Also taggedManagement of users, roles and groups in AWD is fully featured, but has its roots in functionality that was created decades ago. There are currently 15 different screens used to manage users, roles and groups in AWD today, and in many cases, they need to be visited in a very particular order to make something [...]
Also taggedJudith Morley presented on their new case management capability; she started from some pretty basic principles explaining knowledge work, so likely a fairly novel capability for most of the audience. She described case management as a new application or user interface, meaning that the AWD 10 BPM capabilities are there as part of it, but [...]
Also taggedKim Smyly presented on some of the new monitoring and analytics capabilities in AWD. They now have interactive dashboards, charts and reports that link directly to the underlying transactions, and can include line of business data in the reports. Writing reports in the custom AWD BI engine has been replaced with an OEM version of [...]
Also taggedMy history with DST started in 1994, when a mutual fund customer in Toronto hired me to conduct an evaluation of imaging and workflow systems. They were certain that they wanted DST, but we went on to evaluate and select FileNet (now IBM). In the course of that evaluation, I spent about a week each [...]
Also taggedI’ve had a bit of a remote demo of AWD prior to the conference, but wanted to see how DST presents AWD at a basic level to their customers. They highlighted a number of features: Inbound scanned documents, faxes, emails, tweets and other sources Forms builder for data capture user interface Process design (apparently with [...]
Also taggedAWD from DST Technologies is one of those well-kept secrets in BPM: I know about them because I’ve done a lot of implementations with mutual fund companies, which is one of their primary markets due to DST Systems’ transfer agency solution and their involvement in business process outsourcing (do not ask me to explain the [...]
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