Updates from March, 2010

  • Brian

    SourceForge Community Choice Awards - coming to grips

    brian 11:06 pm on July 29, 2009 | 0 Permalink
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    Most of you have probably known the results of the Community Choice awards for a little more than 5 days.  I am just now admitting to myself that we didn’t win in one of the two categories where we were finalists.

    We received such a flood of mail from so many people that said they had voted for us that…well…I was pretty convinced we would actually win.    But no, not this time.  A company called PortableApps.com swept our two categories and robbed us of our day in the sun.    They had 27.87% of the vote in the category of Best Visual Design and 41.74% of the vote in Best Commercial Open Source Software Project.  That certainly seems pretty decisive so my hat is off to them.

    But for those of you who did vote for us - thanks.

    No.  I want to say more than thanks…really, it was a huge source of motivation and satisfaction for our team to be voted in as a Finalist.  Our core team works around the clock motivated by a much higher calling than just selling software.  Our users have told us time and time again how amazingly cool and useful ProcessMaker is - and that, more than anything else is what keeps us moving forward in our search to for perfection in our art of software.

     
  • Brian

    Plan to get more from your BPM!

    brian 4:53 pm on July 28, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    A SmartPlanet blog post titled: ‘It’s awful hard to define the business process around business process management’ has cited interesting research by Forrester and spurred my thinking as to how companies can improve their processes.

    Organizations must start thinking about how to better organize themselves before implementing a BPM (business process management) tool. BPM certainly helps to ensure that a set of workflows, and a business in general, is running as efficiently as possible by identifying areas for improvement. However, without proper planning to establish precisely what the organization wants to get out of BPM, there can be a lot of wasted time, energy and money.

    Once the goals of a BPM are fixed, an organization can plan a solution that is the best fit. Unfortunately what we often see are companies spending exorbitant amounts of money on BPM products that are far too complex, don’t have enough flexibility or simply aren’t a good fit for their requirements. This is why I always recommend looking for a BPM product that has a simple, intuitive user interface. This makes it possible for people with valuable ideas across the business to contribute - even if they aren’t confident with technology.

    The SmartPlanet post rightly points out that business requirements are constantly shifting, and therefore so should the workflows these organizations use. When everything is in place, businesses can begin to scale BPM by setting reasonable and achievable goals. Only once organizations truly commit to understanding why they need BPM and how they can plan to get the most out of the technology, will they begin to reap rewards.

     
  • Amy

    Additional Javascript Functions and Bug Fixes in 1.2-2467

    Amy 8:40 am on July 20, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Version 1.2-2467 is now available for download from SourceForge.

    This version includes numerous bug fixes related to web entry and search options (fore more details, visit the Forum).

    Additionally, it includes Javascript functions including OnAddRow, which allows you to execute a Javascript code when adding new rows to a grid.

    Lastly, process designers are now able to define whether entire Dynaforms are in edit or view mode. Before you could only define edit or view modes for each specific field.

    To download the latest version for Windows or Linux, or to upgrade your version using a patch, visit:

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/processmaker/files/

     
  • Brian

    ProcessMaker Finalist for SourceForge Community Choice Awards

    brian 5:51 pm on July 7, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply

    Open source only functions with a community effort behind it.  To grow, you need a group of passionate people.

    When we decided to open source ProcessMaker in 2008, we chose to host the code on SourceForge because of its community – supportive, engaged and numbering over two million. This combination provides open source projects such as ours with a dazzling audience and a thrilling potential.

    Our goals were simple: attract developers to improve our project and to encourage organizations to download ProcessMaker so they could benefit from its ability to automate document-intensive systems to simplify their business across finance, HR and operations.

    Since 2008, it’s been a whirlwind and a pleasure to watch as ProcessMaker has been supported: the community has steadily grown, along with the number of users.

    We have been nominated by the community for the SourceForge Community Choice Awards.  Being nominated within the 230,000 projects available on SourceForge is a testament to the hard work of our community’s efforts and the benefits, relevance and user appreciation of ProcessMaker.

    ProcessMaker is nominated in two categories: Best Commercial Open Source Project and Best Visual Design.

    Being nominated is an honor and we are thankful to everyone who has supported us and made ProcessMaker a community-driven success.

    To support ProcessMaker, please cast your vote here

     
  • Amy

    PM Tables, input document options, and bug fixes in 1.2-2425

    Amy 3:41 pm on July 2, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply

    ProcessMaker’s latest release is now available for download from SourceForge.  Version 1.2-2425 includes some neat new features, as well as several bug fixes.

    The new PM Tables feature allows admins to create, edit, and manage new database tables directly from ProcessMaker. These database tables automatically appear in the wf database for the related workspace, and make it easy to manipulate database tables.

    This version also includes a new option to upload input documents directly from Dynaforms, eliminating the need to include input documents as additional steps.

    You can download the appropriate version for Windows or Linux, as well as the appropriate patch, here:

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/processmaker/files/

     
  • patty

    ProcessMaker translations are increasing. Now Italian is available

    patty 5:56 pm on July 1, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply

    ProcessMaker is becoming ever more global because our Community is translating it to different languages.

    Now thanks to Andrea Ambrosini, an active community member, ProcessMaker is available in Italian.

    We’re looking forward to having translations in Asian Languages and others.  So if you’d like to have ProcessMaker in your language, you can learn more at:
    http://wiki.processmaker.com/index.php/Translating_ProcessMaker

    or contact me patty@colosa.com

    Grazie mille Andrea for your Translation.

     
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