How to gain a huge head-start in your Metastorm BPM
development
A very common scenario in the Metastorm BPM adoption cycle is having the system
set up and ready to go, and developers get bogged down in the details of making
the system work most effectively. The biggest problem is often that there are so
many different way to do one thing, it can be hard to decide which is best, even
before finding out how that can be done.
On our Support Forums we get a great many questions which can be, and often are,
answered by "We have a library to do exactly that". The reason? Because we've
been doing this for 12 years, and we've come across exactly that problem already.
Because we provide development services to a great many clients, we have a very
definite imperative in place that ensure that if we have to do something twice, we
will build it in a reusable component. It may take us a bit longer, but there are
significant time and cost savings in the future. These are:
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We don't have to write
that code again.
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Pretty obvious, but it should be said.
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We isolate any
'unsupported features'
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We find a great many examples that make use of unsupported features. Our
mandate is that we will not use unsupported features. We have enough difficulty
dealing with the changes to 'supported' features between versions!
That cannot always be followed, as there are times when it is just too beneficial not
to use such a feature, or if there is an overriding need by a client. In these cases,
we wrap all such usage in a library. In that way, when (not if, mind you) that
'unsupported feature' breaks in a subsequent release, we can make the required
change in just the one place, not in every piece of code that has been copied and
pasted over a huge number of systems.
We keep warning Forum users about this, and yet every new version we get people
wondering why half their functionality no longer works.
Our approach avoids almost all of that.
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We can sell it
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We are here to make money, after all! Now others can gain the benefit of our
experience and expertise at a fraction of the cost to develop their own features.
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We have found that after spending tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of dollars
on Metastorm BPM, there is no easy way to justify the additional cost of $250 or
$500 for one of our libraries. The people who will most benefit are not often able to
make the decisions to spend any amount of money, and the approval process is not
easy to go through.
In an attempt to address this, we decided to make it easy. You can get the lot.
Every library and procedure we provide (apart from some isolated speciality ones).
This will give you a huge head-start in your Metastorm BPM development, as well as
provide significant on-going benefit though additional components as we add them,
and greater understanding of the art of Metastorm BPM development from our
examples.
As an additional incentive, you will get the Metastorm BPM Developers course on CD,
our on-going Metastorm BPM Hints and Tips Guide on-line, and our new Metastorm
BPM User Guide on CD, all included in the deal for free.
This is a combined total value of
$16,750
We are selling this at only 8,000, plus a 20% annual maintenance fee of $2,000
This annual fee will never increase, and will include
all additions and updates to the
set while the maintenance agreement is in place. If you have any particular requests
for enhancements or additions, we shall add them to set if we feel that the overall
benefit warrants it.
for more details or to place an order, leave us a message using our
contact form here
Details of the included components are:
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Process Info Library
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A library containing a form displaying the Process Diagram with Role
and History details for any Folder
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$500
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Add Map Action to Segment
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The major flaw with Map Segments is the inability to access any
actions from the parent map while in the segment. We decided to fix
that.
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$500
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Admin Tools
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A selection of tools to help with the administration of a Metastorm BPM
system
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$500
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Bulk Action Folders
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Allows you to perform different actions and update data for multiple
Folders at one time
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$500
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Database Tools
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Allows scripts to be executed at intervals, and the results of SQL
queries to be exported to text files.
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$500
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Email Grid Contents
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Allows you to email the contents of any grids as HTML tables to
selected users at defined intervals with absolutely no code required!
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$500
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Email Alerts
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Allows you to set customised alerts for any stages of any type for
selected types of alert
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$500
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Email Sender
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Keep track of what emails have been sent from your Metastorm BPM
system
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$500
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Error Notifier
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Eliminate Metastorm BPM System and Designer log errors going
undetected...
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$500
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Feedback
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Let users easily provide feedback about the system
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$500
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Folder Activity
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Includes several tools to query the Metastorm database to examine
Folder Activity and statistics.
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$500
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Folder Tasks
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Allows creation of ad-hoc tasks with sub-tasks that may also be
created from or associated with any Metastorm Folder
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$1,000
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Import Folders
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Allows you to automatically generate Folders from tab delimted text
files. This is the simplest way to get existing data into new Metastorm
Folders.
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$500
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Migrate Folders
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Move folders from one Metastorm BPM system to another
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$500
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Procedure Help
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A simple way to add user editable HTML help to ANY Metastorm BPM
form
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$500
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Procedure Update
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Ensure required SQL is executed after a procedure is published
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$500
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Query Folder
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Save queries of folders for viewing later
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$500
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System Variable
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Allows global system variables to be stored for use in procedures
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$500
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Timesheet
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Keep track of how many hours have been worked on projects
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$1,000
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User Maintenance
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An alternative method for Administrators to set up and manage users
and roles on a Metastorm BPM system by allowing the setting of eUser
and eAssignment records
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$1,000
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Coloured Grid Cells
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Colour cells in grids to highlight high priorities etc
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$500
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Common Library
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A Library of common tools such as Audit, Status and Designer Log
forms for Folders
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$500
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Edit Grid Library
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Extends the functionality of Editable Grids and makes them more
effective
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$500
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Encryption
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This library provides effective two-way encryption. The standard
‘password’ field only provides one-way encryption which makes the
original value impossible to retrieve
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$500
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Form Scripts
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A collection of scripts to make form development that much easier
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$500
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Grid to Graph
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Allows graphs to be generated from any grid merely by adding a single
form segment with no configuration required
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$250
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Grid to HTML
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This creates a HTML table from a grid. There are several form Segments
with buttons provided
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$500
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HTML Memo fields
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Easily add the facility to edit and view HTML in any Metastorm BPM
memo field
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$250
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Pass Variable
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a simple mechanism for passing values from one form to another
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$250
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Record Changes
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allows a fully comprehensive audit trail to be maintained by recording
every change to every variable
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$500
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Hints and Tips Course
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Monthly episodes of our Hints and Tips training course as live
demonstrations complete with examples
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$250
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Developer Training course CD
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Our renowned Metastorm BPM Developer Course on CD for the first time
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$500
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Metastorm BPM User Guide
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Our training guide for Metastorm BPM users on a CD for the first time. It
includes single-sheet at-a-glance guides to print and keep by the PC.
This is licensed to copy and use unlimited times through your
organisation.
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$250
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Total
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$16,750
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The Complete Set
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All of the training courses, procedures and libraries listed above, plus all
others we add to the set as long as your maintenance agreement is
current
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$8,000
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Maintance of The Complete Set
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Annual maintenance of all of the training courses, procedures and
libraries listed above, including everything we add to this set
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$2,000
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