HandySoft Enhances Bizflow® With BPEL And BPMN Support, Improves User Interface

HandySoft Global Corp., a leading provider of business process management (BPM) solutions, today announced enhancements to BizFlow®, its award-winning BPM platform. The enhancements include support for industry standards, BPEL and BPMN, and a new Web User Interface (UI).

"HandySoft has a long history of standards compliance and technology innovation and we continue to augment BizFlow's functionality to meet the evolving needs of our customers," said Rob Cain, director product management at HandySoft. "Compliance with standards such as BPEL and BPMN are key to enabling organizations to maximize their business processes and leverage them throughout their enterprise. HandySoft takes a unique approach to BPM by providing a framework for both structured and dynamic work, and we are excited that our new UI allows users to access both within a single environment."

HandySoft has augmented BizFlow's functionality to support BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), a standard, XML-based orchestration language designed to orchestrate processes across computing environments and share data across organizations through the use of Web Services. The combined use of BPEL and Web Services furthers a Service-oriented Architecture (SOA). BizFlow's support of BPEL provides infinite interoperability with SOA business processes by allowing BizFlow process definitions to be leveraged as Web Services and therefore become resources and participants in any Service-oriented Architecture. This means that historical processes remain valuable assets even when users create newer and more complex ones to meet evolving business requirements.

While BPEL is widely accepted by system-to-system tools, there are gaps between what BPMN can model and BPEL can execute. HandySoft's advanced BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) model and execution capabilities close this gap. HandySoft rebuilt its process designer with a new core module to include BPMN. Since BizFlow still supports its original process designer, old process definitions can be converted to new ones once opened inside the process modeler. Users benefit from the visual standardization of process modeling and definitions, while being able to deploy new and old models in the same environment.

Finally, HandySoft introduced a redesigned UI to provide users with a more elegant way to access work and configure work preferences, such as right-click menu functionality and enhanced search features. In addition to intuitive, easy-to-navigate interfaces, the new BizFlow framework provides an opportunity for organizations to build custom UI themes, and apply those themes to the overall product. With the new UI, users can access BizFlow and OfficeEngine™, the industry's first solution combining the power of traditional BPM with the flexibility of e-mail, seamlessly through a unified work environment.

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About HandySoft Global Corp.
HandySoft Global Corporation is a leading global provider of Business Process Management (BPM) solutions. By orchestrating people, information and processes, HandySoft delivers innovative enterprise BPM solutions that automate and simplify processes, enforce best practices, improve quality and productivity, and foster collaboration. HandySoft takes a unique approach to BPM by providing a framework for both structured and dynamic work.

BizFlow®, HandySoft's award-winning platform for structured BPM, includes tools for designing, automating and monitoring business processes, presenting and accessing work, integrating existing IT systems and administering the platform itself.

HandySoft also offers OfficeEngine™, the industry's first solution to combine the power of traditional BPM with the flexibility of e-mail. OfficeEngine enables knowledge workers to create, assign, sub-delegate, track and execute mission critical work in real time. By providing executives with increased visibility and control and driving knowledge worker productivity, this dynamic BPM offering allows organizations to benefit from greater accountability and insight into business operations.

As a global solutions provider, HandySoft Global is headquartered in Vienna, VA, USA, with a subsidiary in London, UK, and with strategic partner representation throughout the world. HandySoft has implemented process management solutions at hundreds of sites worldwide. For more information call +1-703-442-5600, email info@handysoft.com or visit http://www.handysoft.com.

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