There are two different areas of Kontinuum.  The Design Studio and the End User Environment.  This page describes some of the more commonly used technical features in both of these areas. 

Features of the End User Environment

Data Capture Web Forms

When participating in a workflow, end users contribute information through web-forms.  With web-forms you: 

• Complete tasks by filling out simple or complex web-forms.
• Answer questions and have the answers stored in a database. 
• Place post-it notes on web-forms.
• See a log of all changes to data within a web-form.
• View help on a web-form to ensure its correct completion.
• See informative error messages when web-forms are fill out incorrectly.
• Approve and Reject web-forms.
• Upload, check-in and check-out documents or files.
  

Active Eye

Web and Flo's unique Active Eye feature shows you:

• A graphical representation of workflow instances and stages completed in real time.
• Who needs to complete the next step to progress the workflow.
• Who has modification and approval rights to web- forms. 
• An Audit Trail of who completed each step and when.

Navigation

When navigating through Kontinuum utilize  Task Lists, Item List and Task Calendars, that give you the ability to:

• See in real time what tasks in a workflow require your attention.
• Sort tasks by priority and due date.
• Sort and filter information.
• Lock a workflow instance and secure the data behind it. 
• View only the information that you have access to.
• See your tasks' due dates and other key dates in a calendar format.

Web-Based Reports

Kontinuum reporting gives you the ability to:

• Create custom reports.
• Access real time reports over the web.
• Download or email any report as an Excel document for analysis or import the information into an alternate application.
• Use the built-in data warehouse capabilities for complex data analysis.
• View pre-built reports to analyze bottlenecks and potential causes of slow turn around times.

Other Features

• Perform complex analysis on data.
• Create word documents from templates using information provided in web-forms.  

Features of the Design Studio

Graphical Web-Based Workflow Designer

Designers create workflow applications that fit the uniqueness of their business.  This allows you to:

• Create simple or complex multi-layered business process.
• Apply business rules to a workflow using WAFFL (See below)
• Determine within the workflow when a task should appear in your Task List.
• Create workflows that exchange data with Legacy systems.
• Interweave processes so reaching a stage in one workflow completes or initiates a stage in a different workflow.
• Create add-on widgets to do almost anything. 

Web-Based Form Builder

Designers use the form builder to:

• Create customized web forms and database structures within minutes.
• Drop any form into any workflow.
• Design forms by answering simple questions such as:
  • What question text will you display to the user and
  • How are you going to answer it (i.e. text box, radio buttons).
• Configure the behaviour of questions and answers using WAFFL (See below), thus ensuring all data is validated before the workflow proceeds.
• Add in approval routes for an individual question or an entire web-form.
• Link forms to data in Legacy systems.
• Copy, paste and re-use pre-built web-forms and questions. 

Customisable Appearence

• Gives the Designer the ability to customize the appearance of their Kontinuum applications.
• Designers create their own style sheets, templates or images to tie their Workflow solutions into their corporate image.
  

Security

• All users by default are required to login to Kontinuum before viewing or modifying any information.
• Successful and unsuccessful login attempts are logged by the system.
• 'Complex Password Mode' allows Administrators to switch the level of complexity of a users password.
• Kontinuum offers SSL certificate for added security.
• Kontinuum can integrate with Active Directory so users only have to remember one password.
• Every transaction is logged allowing you to track who, what and when changes were made to information held in the system.

Schedule

• You schedule tasks to appear in users Task Lists on a recurring basis. For example:
  • Prompting users to complete time sheets once a week.
  • Prompting users to complete expenses once a month.
• Escalations
  • You are able to ensure tasks are flagged or reassigned under certain conditions
    • Email a reminder or re-assign a task a day or a week after a task is overdue.
    • Email a reminder or re-assign a task after a period of inactivity.

Web-Based User Management Module

• With an easy to use web interface, you are able to:
  • Manage what users see and do in each workflow.
  • Change passwords.
  • Change user details.
  • Post news articles for users to view important messages after login.
  • Determine which users see which news articles.

W.A.F.F.L. (Web and Flo Functional Language)

WAFFL allows you to:

 

• Modify the behaviour of questions, forms, reports, routing and user permissions.
• Create functions using information from an ODBC compliant database and information stored in the form or the session.
• Embed statements from two of the most commonly used scripting languages SQL and VBScript.

Further Features

• Automated database creation and administration.
• Developed using industry standard software.
• Complete customization of any workflow.
• Pre built solutions such as CRM.
• Tested on Internet Explorer, Netscape and Firefox Browsers.

If you are interested in a free Kontinuum evaluation or have a few questions 

please   contact us.