04/03/2007

HandySoft Global Corp., a provider of business process management (BPM) solutions, today announced enhancements to BizFlow®. The enhancements include support for industry standards, BPEL and BPMN, and a new Web User Interface (UI).

ebizQ received the following details:

"HandySoft has a long history of standards compliance and technology innovation and we continue to augment BizFlow’s functionality to meet the evolving needs of our customers," said Rob Cain, director of product management at HandySoft. “Compliance with standards such as BPEL and BPMN are key to enabling organizations to maximize their business processes and leverage them throughout their enterprise. HandySoft takes a unique approach to BPM by providing a framework for both structured and dynamic work, and we are excited that our new UI allows users to access both within a single environment.”

HandySoft has augmented BizFlow’s functionality to support BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), a standard, XML-based orchestration language designed to orchestrate processes across computing environments and share data across organizations through the use of Web Services. The combined use of BPEL and Web Services furthers a Service-oriented Architecture (SOA). BizFlow’s support of BPEL provides infinite interoperability with SOA business processes by allowing BizFlow process definitions to be leveraged as Web Services and therefore become resources and participants in any Service-oriented Architecture. This means that historical processes remain valuable assets even when users create newer and more complex ones to meet evolving business requirements.

While BPEL is widely accepted by system-to-system tools, there are gaps between what BPMN can model and BPEL can execute. HandySoft’s advanced BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) model and execution capabilities close this gap. HandySoft rebuilt its process designer with a new core module to include BPMN. Since BizFlow still supports its original process designer, old process definitions can be converted to new ones once opened inside the process modeler. Users benefit from the visual standardization of process modeling and definitions, while being able to deploy new and old models in the same environment.

Finally, HandySoft introduced a redesigned UI to provide users with a more elegant way to access work and configure work preferences, such as right-click menu functionality and enhanced search features. In addition to intuitive, easy-to-navigate interfaces, the new BizFlow framework provides an opportunity for organizations to build custom UI themes, and apply those themes to the overall product. With the new UI, users can access BizFlow and OfficeEngineTM, the industry’s first solution combining the power of traditional BPM with the flexibility of e-mail, seamlessly through a unified work environment.