Joget Blog

Joget Workflow v5 comes with many new features and enhancements  You can view the full list of new features from the v5 knowledge base located here . So what is the most exciting v5 feature? For me it has to be the much enhanced App Generator. Imagine, generate a production ready Joget Workflow app in minutes. It has opened up new possibilities for developers ( citizen or otherwise) and business users to greatly speed up their Enterprise app development process. Not just for prototyping but for delivering full functioning production applications. Well, exactly how is the latest App Generator exciting compared to v4 or to other agile development platform. Here is what I put forward. Low-Code Platform First of all, the App Generator made it's first appearance in Joget Workflow v4 beta back in 2013. It was ground breaking in that it allowed users to create a form and from the form, generate a full-fledged functioning web app with or without a workflow approval cycle. And al...

I was kind of surprised to receive an email recently with the question, " What is a Joget Workflow app? " I had thought that we would have published enough information on our website and community knowledge base explaining what it is. After searching and crawling through our sites, the only reference I could find that explained what a Joget Workflow app is, was in another blog post titled, " Web App Development Methodology for The Citizen Developer (Infographic) ". We were so careful in taking care of the tree that we forgot about the forest. Ouch! Our bad! So here is an explanation with some recycled information. What is a Joget Workflow App? A Joget Workflow App is a web application that is built and developed on the Joget Workflow platform to run on the Joget Workflow platform. At its core, the app consist of 2 XML definition files (app and process definition). These definition files are what the platform needs to render the app in an easy-to-use form. ...

Joget Workflow being an open source platform for developing enterprise web apps on-premise or on the Cloud, is perfect for the Citizen Developer. In this infographic, we would like to share with Citizen Developers a simple development methodology to expedite development that is agile and iterative. Related: Joget Workflow as a Citizen Developer Platform Download the infographic (PDF) via Slideshare.

When v3 was first released in 2012, it made process and database driven application development amazingly fast and easy for programmers and analysts alike. Some of our partners would meet up with their clients and develop a fully functional application as a proof-of-concept (inclusive of their change requests) in 60 minutes or less. The partner would take one of the client's MS Word drawn process flow chart, build the app and automate their process right in front of them! Developing a working app in 60 minutes was super-fast in terms of app development time, but not really suitable for clients that cannot stay at least 60 minutes for a presentation :) Ever since the release of v3, we have been looking for ways to further speed up the development of apps that are supported automatically on mobile devices. So, in v4 we added the App Generator. It would allow anyone to very quickly get their ideas to a proof-of-concept or a minimum viable product stage in 10 minutes or less! Th...

This first quarter of 2014 has been an extremely exciting start to the year. All the months of hard work have led us to this point! The first week of April sees us releasing and launching Joget Workflow v4 and just a couple of days ago, we quietly released Joget Workflow On-Demand . So, what is Joget Workflow On-Demand? Joget Workflow On-Demand is a subscription based service that offers Joget Workflow Enterprise Edition to small businesses on the Cloud. It is an application platform as a service (aPaaS) that allows users to create their own workflow apps or database driven apps with or without programming knowledge. Alternatively, they can make use of the ready made simple apps such as employee self service portal, expenses, invoicing, etc. for their own use, or as template to build new ones. What are the Benefits of subscribing to Joget Workflow On-Demand? Here are some of the benefits that can immediately be realized. Rapid time to value/benefit - Significantly reduc...

On July 14, 2011, Gartner published a press release that "Citizen developers will be building at least a quarter of new business applications by 2014...". This article has brought renewed interest in end-user application development which had been propositioned as early as the 1980s, if not earlier. The definition of citizen developer as defined by Gartner states that: "A citizen developer is a user who creates new business applications for consumption by others using development and runtime environments sanctioned by corporate IT. In the past, end-user application development has typically been limited to single-user or workgroup solutions built with tools like Microsoft Excel and Access. However, today, end users can build departmental, enterprise and even public applications using shared services, fourth-generation language (4GL)-style development platforms and cloud computing services." According to Gartner, employees bypassing the IT departments to deve...

Joget Workflow as a workflow management software has come a long way since Nov 2009. Version 1 and 2 were developed and positioned as a BPM workflow management system to design, deploy and run workflows for business processes with the workflow engine as the core. After almost two years of trying to find a market fit, we discovered that our customers were using Joget Workflow to automate their processes and then building web applications around those workflows. A process-driven application if you will! Joget Workflow as a process-driven application platform That realization made us rethink our product strategy. Why not provide a platform that allowed the users to develop web applications and at the same time provide them with the capability to automate any processes they need? It should be designed to be simple and easy to use with little or no coding! Hence, for v3, we decided to completely redeveloped Joget Workflow from ground up ( v3 Overview ). It is designed to be a pl...