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Automating business processes doesn't need to be complicated. WorkflowFirst is the first ever web-based workflow designer and database aimed at business analysts. All you need to do is describe your workflow and WorkflowFirst creates web applications for you. No form designing, database designing, or programming required. Powerful and fast, you can create sharable, web-based business applications and get full control of your business in record time.

  • Business First: Start out defining workflow: steps of work, what to collect, decisions to make. From that WorkflowFirst creates a full web application, sharable by everyone on your network.
  • No Designers: Business experts are not designers. WorkflowFirst lets you create forms and reports in the browser interface without design skills, using an automatic layout engine that removes the necessity to design and layout screens and pages.
  • Simple App Enrichment: Add rich functionality such as search, a Wiki, charts, maps, report subscriptions, RSS, notification (and more) onto a list by just flipping a switch.

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More Articles and Downloads
WorkflowFirst Quick Start: An excerpt from the dbFramework User Guide providing a quick start to creating workflow applications.
WorkflowFirst User Guide: User Guide covering all of the features of WorkflowFirst and dbFramework.
WorkflowFirst Brochure: A summary of the features of WorkflowFirst.
What is Workflow?: The Wikipedia article on workflow and workflow automation and management applications.
Video Turorials and Demos
Creating a Help Desk App in 2 Minutes
In this fast-paced demo we show how quickly we can create a Help Desk application by just entering workflow. Great introduction to WorkflowFirst.

WorkflowFirst has been used to create systems managing millions of dollars across multiple countries. In just a few minutes you can transform your business workflow from spreadsheets or paper into a professional browser-based application. Just enter the workflow stages and let WorkflowFirst do the rest, generating easy-to-use browser-based applications and stunning reports.

A recent study discovered up to 70% of IT budgets are wasted on misunderstood requirements. Business experts are not designers or programmers, to them data modeling and algorithms are a foreign language. WorkflowFirst breaks down barriers letting business experts take control of their software solutions, meaning less misunderstandings and less wasted time.

Either enter your workflow from scratch, or customize one of our pre-developed commercial-grade applications such as a document manager. Add your own workflow to make the application work precisely how you need it to. Take control of your software, make it work for you.

Don't think this excludes programmers. Through adding complex business logic, custom views and custom reports, there are plenty of sophisticated interfaces and an automatically-generated SDK that programmers can use in order to extend the workflow application, or integrate it with existing, legacy systems.

Check out some other amazing features of WorkflowFirst:

Uniquely Scalable: WorkflowFirst scales from a desktop application to client/server on SQL Server to a cloud service hosting hundreds/thousands of clients - without changing the application.

All Browser-Based: It's an end-to-end browser-based development system, letting you do all of your development anywhere - even on your iPhone. From writing scripts to creating automated tests.

Hierarchical Data: Workflow is hierarchical instead of purely relational. This breaks down a huge barrier to making development accessible to non-programmers. Everyone is familiar with the hierarchical folder/file concept.

Customizable App Store: It comes with the source for numerous fully functional, incredibly agile commercial-grade enterprise applications that can be completely customized, yet still upgraded. Including a document manager and an IP tracker, and other innovative apps like a debating system.

Real-Time: All data can be displayed live with realtime updates, even over the web. Provides a realtime CEP (complex event-processing) architecture, critical for use in high-scale enterprise environments.

Extensible Business Logic: Using Workflow First you can create business logic in a simple point-and-click workflow, in-browser scripting, any .Net language, Java, Visual Basic, or even Excel using the real-time plugin.

Small Footprint: Ease of deployment has emerged as the number one factor in technology success: from the web to Apple's AppStore; being able to cater to an audience that is increasingly impatient.. WorkflowFirst is just a 10Mb download. It can be downloaded and installed in seconds on Windows XP upwards with no prerequisites. Comes with a seamlessly integrated database and web server.

Complete Transparency: Ever frustrated with not knowing what programmers are doing? Open up the whole development process by seeing and controlling every aspect of it. Understand what developers do by getting full visibility of how the workflow is defined in the application.


Mobile Phone Access
Has special interface optimized for access by mobile phones using the phone's browser, letting you access your data 'on the go'.

User Sign-Up
Let users sign themselves up to access the system, requesting a login that is validated via email.

Fully Secure
User must login and only has access to designated areas of the application.

Fully Transactional
Transactions help maintain data consistency, all but guaranteeing that your data won't become corrupt or inconsistent.

Fully Scalable
By utilizing data-paging and indexing, increasing users of the system or data-load will not impact system speed or responsiveness.

Unprecedented Expandability
Fully expandable using built-in scripting or third-party programming tools such as Visual Basic or C#. Every application has a full SDK (Software Development Kit) that makes extending the application painless.

Multiple Language Support / Localization
Multiple language capabilities by uploading easy-to-edit translation files.

Approval Workflow
Configure to ensure that changes to specific areas of the application are approved by a supervisor or other member of the team, to mitigate the risk of errors in data entry.

Event Notifications
Users subscribe to receive email notification of specific events in the system, such as a particular area of the application being changed.

Audit Trail
Configure to keep a complete audit trail of everything that changes in the system.

Version Control
The system allows records to be locked by a user for editing, and will maintain a history of changes to a record.

Document Routing
Ensures that new records are circulated for review among a group for feedback. Changes can be rejected or accepted by group, based on a voting majority.

Discussion Boards
Threaded discussion boards (BBS) can be enabled for any record in the system, encouraging discussions and debate to garner user feedback.

Tagging
Tagging can be enabled on any record in the system, with a hierarchical tag database that lets you quickly find records throughout the entire database that are assigned specific tags.

Ratings
Users can easily rate records to indicate their importance / usefulness.

Google-like Search
Search across the entire application's database the same way you use Google (TM), with results provided just as fast. Search index is kept up to date in realtime.

Wiki Support
Add a wiki area to the application allowing a knowledge base to be developed with the application, letting you share important insights into using the application for all users to access.

E-Mail Integration
All services (reminders, notifications, workflow, routing) integrate with e-mail.

Extensible Help System
Utilize the inbuilt help system and even add your own help pages that make sense to your own business or industry.

Custom Business Logic
Application is event-driven, enabling you to add your own custom business logic that get triggered when certain events occur.

Custom Workflow
Add your own, custom workflow to any area of the application with our incredibly easy-to-use WorkflowFirst graphical designer.

Ad-hoc Reporting
Add your own, custom reporting using our ad-hoc reporting tool that's built into dbFramework. Add multi-level reports with charts using our point-and-click interface. Even incorporate your own, custom-added fields into existing reports.

Custom Data Structures
Add your own fields to the application, even whole, hierarchical data structures.

Report Subscriptions
Users can subscribe to any report, having them automatically emailed to their inbox each morning (or any frequency they request). It can also store a copy of the report for archiving purposes.

Integration
Integrates with spreadsheets and other systems through a variety of interfaces.

Built-In Tutorials
Comes with built-in, interactive tutorials so you can get started straight away. Just follow the instructions on the screen to have your own personal teacher giving one-on-one training for every aspect of this powerful system.

Make Your Own Tutorials
With its built-in tutorial engine and easy-to-use designer, you can even make your own tutorials for your own applications!

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