Virksomheder dropper mails

Mere #NoEmail i medierne - se her.

Her er fordelene ved at skrotte e-mailen

Læs Jacob Wittorff's artikel om status for #NoEmail hos Exformatics her eller her..

Kan desuden læses på Ekstra Bladet's hjemmeside ekstrabladet.dk.

Det drejer sig om at arbejde smartere og anvende nye teknologier for at løse de samarbejdsudfordringer alle virksomheder slås med.

Læs mere i den kommende uge på exformatics.com hvor vi i forbindelse med Arbejd Smartere ugen vil sætte fokus på vores tanker herom. Det drejer sig om at sætte strøm til arbejdsgangene i virksomhederne således at tingene flyder af sig selv, så medarbejderen 40 cm fra skærmen hjælpes til at gennemføre sit arbejde. Når der sættes strøm til processerne mindskes behovet for emails, og ved at anvende sociale medier i arbejdsgangene forventer vi at emails helt kan undgås internt.

Arbejd smartere

I uge 16 fokuserer vi på at arbejde smartere.

Følg debatten på fx Facebook.

Fingrene væk fra send-knappen!

Værd at læse.

Befriende med e-mailfri januar

Anders Elbak fra IDC Nordic skriver at email er bedre da det gemmes til forskel fra chat. Jeg vil faktisk mene at det forholder sig omvendt. I vores løsning anvendes en aktivitetsstrøm som gemmes og dermed automatisk er arkiveret på relevante forretningsobjekter.

Ph.D. - adaptive case management

Now it's official - we co-sposor a PhD student at the IT University of Copenhagen.

Flow charts replaced with a new logic - dynamic condition response. Easier to understand for business users - easier to implement for IT people. The gap beteween business and IT is narrowing.

#Noemail – tag kontrol over indbakken

Read about our #NoEmail initiative on our web site or on Facebook.

Comments appreciated

The importance of synchronous event handlers

Finally a good explanation on the issues we face with SharePoint 2010 compared with SharePoint 2007. We have a global unique document id which enables us to support quality requirements such as FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and ISO 9000. Everytime a document is added to SharePoint we give it a unique id and makes a MD5 hash of the metadata and document in order to prove that the document was indeed created on the specific date. When making a major approval, publishing, we run a workflow which prompts various users for a electronic signature which is stored with the document.

This works great in SharePoint 2007. We use ItemAdded to add the unique document id. However, we sometimes face some issues with SharePoint 2010. Obviously it is related to the timing om ItemAdded which is used. As it runs asynchronous we cannot be certain when the code is run - so sometimes we experience that the code is run and a unique document id is assigned to the document, but when we check the document afterwards the field is empty.

Setting ItemAdded to run synchronous solves our issue. Thanks for the hint.

#NoEmail - New Year promise - no more emails

Read this acticle about our New Year promise - no more internal emails. In danish - but use Google Translate.

Another article - also in danish - can be found here.

SharePoint content - Anywhere

Exformatics Anywhere enables access to SharePoint content behind the firewall from your iPhone, iPad ogg Android device.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions can now be accessed from mobile devices. Several links refers to this.

Find application on Android Market.

Sæt strøm til arbejdsgangene - Whitepaper om adaptiv sagsstyring og proceseksekvering

Læs vores nye whitepaper "Sæt strøm til arbejdsgangene - Whitepaper om adaptiv sagsstyring og proceseksekvering"

Designing a Cross-organizational Case Management System using Dynamic Condition Response Graphs

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Danske Exformatics vil udrydde interne e-mails

Værd at læse. Vi har sådan set sagt dette siden 2003 men som altid tager det tid at få den slags budskaber ud.

Lean med SharePoint

ESDH OG LEAN SIKRER EFFEKTIVITETEN I TELE GREENLAND

Læs mere om Lean og ESDH hos  Tele Greenland her.

Lean og procesoptimeringer kræver fleksible it-løsninger

Design of a Distributed Case Management System using Dynamic Condition Response Graphs

We present a case study of a design of a distributed case management system using Dynamic Condition Response  (DCR) Graphs, a recently proposed declarative notation for distributed processes. The case study was carried out jointly with our industrial partner Exformatics, a danish provider of knowledge and workflow management systems. We present an early prototype design and simulation tool and outline the proposal for the continued work of the two last authors towards the PhD degree, developing the model, technologies and tools further to make it applicable to component and model based design of distributed systems.

Highly recommended if you wish to understand the 21st century business workflow.

SharePoint is case-sensitive - documents upload into root-folder

It took us quite a while to figure out this issue. It turns out that SharePoint sitenames og document libraries are case-sensitive. If you try to navigate to a folder using it's URL and type the site og document library in the wrong case it seems to work. However, when trying to upload documents it fails. Documents are then placed in the root-folder of the document library as outlined below.

Given a standard document library "Documents" you create a new folder "Folder1".

Navigate to the folder

and then click Upload to upload a document, "My New Document.docx", and everything works as it should:

Now, try to enter the URL of the folder directly in your browser in this case enter

http://intranet/TV2/documents/folder1

where "Documents" is modified to "documents" (little d).

As you can see everything seems to work as they should:

However, when you try to click Upload

the document is not uploaded into the folder

but instead the document ends up in the root-folder of the Document library:

Quite a scary error in a standard product used by so many people in the world. When I presented the problem to a Microsoft representative claiming SharePoint to be case-sensitive they didn't believe me until I presented the above example.

Therefore. Remember that site-names and Document Libraries in SharePoint are case-sensitive.

Sæt strøm til processerne - fra arbejdsgang analyse over BPMN til digitale arbejdsgange

Exformatics har i foråret 2010 sammen med Kommunernes Landsforening arbejdet med at digitalisere arbejdsgange. Med udgangspunkt i en arbejdsganganalyse og efterfølgende modellering i BPMN er arbejdsgangen placeret i KL's arbejdsgangbank.

Exformatics har på baggrund af fremsendt BPMN diagram (i XPDL) mappet dette til vores arbejdsgang motor (Exformatics Process) således at arbejdsgangen efterfølgende er faciliteret digitalt.

Læs om projektet på KL's hjemmeside.

Exformatics detaljerede besvarelse af KL's opgave kan findes på dette link.

Processer og IT

Exformatics taler på seminaret arrangeret af Alexandra Instituttet. Læs mere her.