Funnel Development Toolkit

The Funnel Development Kit(FDK) is a rapid development environment for Orchestra-based business solutions and applications that provides all necessary building blocks for toll-gated processes.FDK contains a collection of tools that allow business users with minimal software skills to model their processes in a fraction of the time and effort compared to traditional solutions and will eliminate most home-grown database applications.

FDK provides interfaces for search applications and also ensures the secure role-based authorization model is applied to the solutions. The toolkit allows developers to make use of over 1,400 web services and APIs as well as a number of built-in, enterprise ready applications for:

• Document and content management
• Email
• Blogs
• Social Networking
• Collaboration
• Stage-gated process configuration
• Tethered workflow configuration

The FDK supports configuration of business rules governing the associated processes and enables consolidated views of projects, thereby providing process owners and executive management with immediate visibility into their portfolios.

Applicable Users

• Business Process Definers
• Business Process Implementers
• Software Application Maintenance
• External Consultants and SIs
• PointCross Business Process Deployment Teams

Features

• Funnel process generator that configures multi-stage funnel (stage gated) processes
• Review Gate Criteria Editor which sets toll-gate criteria
• Meta-Data Editor, & Thematic Manager to define metadata sets from raw data sets
• Forms Generator & Converter to convert Excel forms currently used in the business and automatically convert them into online XSL forms
• Workflow Authoring which provides alerting, notification, calendaring services and sequential approval
• Common best practice template and data template services
• Publish-subscription for cross enterprise business process orchestration