I'm currently on Process360 9.5.1. What new features are available in the latest version (10.2.1)?

Alan Hitchings

By Darrin Bebout

I'm currently on Process360 9.5.1.  What new features are available in the latest version (10.2.1)?

Alan Hitchings

BY Darrin Bebout

 

New functionality in release 10.2.

- Optical Character Recognition support:  Integrating with the Global 360 Recognition Service, OCR support provides a zone recognition feature. The Recognition Service is a high-performance, multi-threaded service that runs on one or more servers. You can include the Zone Recognition task in your business process to extract information from barcode and text zones on scanned image pages of a document. You can save the extracted information as an attribute field or property on the folder form for the document, and use that information to guide the document through the process. The Global 360 Recognition Service must be purchased and installed separately.

- BPM Enablement:  BPM Enablement is the idea that you can initiate a business process management workflow from a document stored in your SharePoint repository or based on a SharePoint event such as when a document is added to a library. BPM Enablement is an optional feature included with Process360, which you install on your SharePoint server.

New functionality in release 10.1

Enhanced Modeling, Ease of Use and Maintenance

- designerView:integrated process and data modeling (replaces Process Builder)

- userViews:persona-based applications

- Data model enhancements

- Enterprise administration

- Solution deployment enhancements

- SharePoint web parts enhancements

- ASP.NET web parts

- Forms designer

- Redesigned installation

Extended Microsoft Integration

- Outlook integration

- Office 2007 integration

System Enhancements

- InfoPath integration enhancements

- Workpacket audit and monitoring

- Erasable MSS

- Multi-threaded process agent

- managerView integration enhancements

- Corticon BRE integration enhancements

- Performance and scalability

- New platform support

Architectural changes

- No single, system-wide readroot. The release 10.2 installer must be run on each machine that will host a Process360 component (for example, Process Agent, Web Services Server, and an IIS server for Process360 Administration). Therefore, each component will have its own readroot and there is no longer a reliance on a single, system-wide readroot. A system-wide (network) dataroot is no longer required:it can be either networked or local.

- COM-based EBPI is being sunset, and the Process Agent is fully .NET. A .NET version of EBPI is delivered with release 10.2, and provides the same objects, properties and methods as the original .COM version in order to maintain backward compatibility. A .COM version of the Process Agent is no longer available, and custom tasks must be ported to .NET. Likewise, all standard tasks have been ported to .NET, and COM registration of tasks is no longer necessary.

A .COM EBPI workstation install continues to be available, but is intended only for backward compatibility with existing .COM based thick client desktop applications. The .COM version of EBPI will not be enhanced. Global 360 strongly recommends that desktop applications be migrated to a .NET deployment as soon as possible.