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K2.net Announces ECM Commitment to Office '12'
SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc. (SCTH), provider of enterprise business process management software built on the .NET platform,announced at the Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in L.A., that the next version of their K2.net(R) product (code-name "BlackPearl") will integrate and leverage the next release of Microsoft Office products and technologies, code-named Office "12". BlackPearl is scheduled for general availability by late 2006.
At a special K2.net(R) BlackPearl preview event hosted at PDC, SourceCode CEO, Adriaan van Wyk shared, "Since we launched K2.net(R) 2003 alongside Microsoft Office 2003, we've seen demand and positive response continue to grow significantly for K2.net(R)-based integrated solutions that can rapidly and effectively bring together back end systems with the collaborative Microsoft Office environment. As the volume of data, regulation for managing that information through its life cycle and competition all rapidly increase in the marketplace, so has the need for enterprise content management (ECM) within a well-managed business process. We are looking forward to expanding our Office investments to encompass and leverage Microsoft's latest innovation in ECM so that we can continue to offer our customers the most integrated and effective .NET-based business process management solution to help them optimize operations and processes within their enterprise."
The next release of Microsoft Office has announced ECM as a core area of emphasis. Helping users to easily work together to consume and publish content as well as manage it through it's life cycle are key ECM design goals. To facilitate this, Office "12" is building on the new Windows Workflow Foundation whereby workflows pertaining to documents, tasks, issues, events and many other types of collaborative content will be provided out-of-the-box to help enable an effective document and content approval process. K2.net(R) BlackPearl will help customers rapidly extend beyond the document-focused workflows as part of a much broader business process management solution that will scale and address the enterprise complexities involved. For instance, K2.net(R) BlackPearl will introduce new concepts such as presence-based tasking for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 customers. This feature will enable K2.net(R) to detect online presence of users participating in a document workflow within Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies and route work to them based on real-time availability and alternatively rerouting work based on escalation path options built within K2.net(R). From helping to automate the collection, approval and organization of content based on a series of predetermined business rules and giving visibility into where the content is in the process to delivering enterprise host, tracking and audit trails, K2.net(R) BlackPearl will deliver process management across the entire content life cycle.
K2.net(R) 2003 currently offers several workflow features for customers with Office 2003 investments. These include rich support for the SharePoint products and technologies event model, workflow within SharePoint to include workflow for typical document life cycle scenarios, automation of web and InfoPath based forms as well as seamless task integration with SharePoint Sites, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and mobile devices. With the introduction of Office "12", the foundation has been laid for a significantly enhanced user experience with respect to process automation. In particular within the mainstream Office applications will allow K2.net(R) to provide a much richer user experience around process management within Office. The expansion of ECM capabilities within Office "12", will make it even easier for future K2.net(R) releases to integrate process with a rich set of server based Office system APIs. This powerful combination will be a compelling driver for adoption of pervasive process automation within organizations.
"K2.net(R) continues to seamlessly integrate not only across the Microsoft Office system, but also and perhaps more importantly, to and from the Office system and backend systems such as BizTalk Server and LOB systems. The sophistication of the K2.net(R) offering and continued commitment to innovation on our platform has made their offering very compelling. We look forward to another successful series of launches of our respective complimentary technologies in the busy year ahead," said Jeff Teper, general manager, Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server.
"Most customers have a critical need for an affordable enterprise process automation platform to remove manual approval tasks, introduce better insight into active processes and provide default reporting, auditing and visibility. It is exactly here that we have tried to match our R&D to customer needs. Our next release will provide a powerful pairing of ECM and BPM by unifying assets across the .NET platform; from the Office "12" desktop, to the back end systems and powerful development platform offered by the Windows Workflow Foundation. Ultimately, our goal is for K2.net(R) BlackPearl to enable customers to rapidly build and effectively manage solutions with better quality, timely and relevant data in a more robust, dynamic and meaningful way than ever before," stated SourceCode CEO, Adriaan van Wyk. 16.09.2005, SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc.
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