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The Rise of No-Code/Low-Code Platforms The world is going digital, and your business needs to transform itself to survive and compete. Imagine you have a business process or workflow problem that you wish to digitize or automate, what do you do? After approaching your IT department, you get a typical response that the software developers (assuming there are any in the first place) are all busy or unavailable. Or perhaps you are a software developer yourself, but you never have enough time to deliver what the business requires. You then decide to use spreadsheets, or more horrifyingly, resort to manually using paper. Surely there must be a better way to do it. What if you could build a full-fledged enterprise app accessible via both desktop and mobile, complete with database-driven forms, lists and reports with filters and data export capabilities, along with an approval workflow process, within 5 minutes? And this duration assumes that you are starting from zero, meaning no serve...

As we approach the 10th anniversary of the Joget open source project, the Joget team is proud to announce that we’ve hit the milestone of 200,000 open source downloads (not counting many more in enterprise downloads and cloud signups) before the end of March 2019!   Joget is an open source no-code/low-code application platform for faster, simpler digital transformation. Joget combines the best of business process automation, workflow management and rapid application development in a simple, flexible and open platform. Visual and web-based, it empowers non-coders to instantly build and maintain apps anytime, anywhere. Joget started as the open source Joget Workflow project on SourceForge in 2009. Initially a workflow engine for business process automation, Joget evolved into a full-fledged application development platform in its third major release Joget Workflow v3 in 2011, back before the term “low code” was even coined by Forrester in 2014. The latest major relea...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. AI is a hot topic in technology today, with rapid advancements and increasing adoption in many areas e.g. smartphones, smarthomes and self-driving cars among others. AI and automation in business has tremendous potential, and will change the future of the workforce . Introduction to TensorFlow TensorFlow is an open source AI library for machine learning. Built by Google, TensorFlow is designed for implementing, training, testing and deploying deep learning neural networks. Neural networks are used in a variety of applications, notably in classification problems such as speech and image recognition . The TensorFlow site provides a number of tutorials to get started. Incorporate AI Image Recognition in Joget Workflow As a low-code application platform for rapid application development and business automation, Joget Workflow allows you to extend fun...

Thanks to the great feedback from our beta testers, we’re pleased to announce the availability of the new Joget Workflow v6 Beta 2 release. This release contains many new features, enhancements and fixes as we strive to become the best open source workflow and low-code/no-code application platform. What’s New in Joget Workflow v6 Beta 2? Enhanced Security with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) User logins can now be secured with built-in support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) , working with TOTP standard mobile apps like Google Authenticator or Microsoft Authenticator . Excel-Like Functionality With the Spreadsheet Element The Spreadsheet element provides Excel-like functionality with formulas and functions, as well as support for file and image uploads. Improved User Experience with AJAX Support in Multi-Paged Forms Multi-Paged Forms provide an improved user experience with AJAX support, allowing for switching between pages without the need for full page ...

TL;DR  Some of the types of apps you can create using Joget Workflow include business process/workflow, scheduling/bookings, collaboration, request, tracking, management, submission, approval, information/notification, analytics, security, and financial applications. It's the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the market demand for enterprise applications is skyrocketing. Technology costs are going down and organizations are realizing the importance of offering their employees the freedom to choose the devices and apps they want to work with. Gone are the days when workers had to sit all day in front of a traditional desktop computer. They now prefer a smart approach to work and enterprise applications are at the center of it all. Gartner even predicts that by the end of 2017, the market demand for this type of apps will grow at least five times more than IT teams’ ability to deliver them. But here's the long and short of it: Despite this uptrend in ent...

Enterprise applications are a phenomenal innovation that has changed and ameliorated the way people work. It's growing in popularity and enterprises are buying into it to make work easier, increase operational efficiency, and open new opportunities for growth. While organizations are investing more and more in enterprise applications, there's a certain impediment to securing a return on such investments. It has actually been rocking the enterprise application industry for a while and it's a major concern for some organizations. In our previous post in this series, we took you through the step-by-step process of building an enterprise web application for your organization. It could pass for a disservice if after showing you how to build apps, we do not show you how to deal with what is probably the biggest problem that's been hindering some organizations from getting a return on their app dev investment. But happy are you because with this post, we've got you cover...