PowerWF Studio Product Overview By PowerWF.com
PowerWF Studio Product Position & Overview
Aug 21, 2015
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- 1. PowerWF Studio
Product Overview
ByPowerWF.com - 2. Why Automate?
Handle Complexity
IT Systems are more complex
IT Systems cross IT disciplines & teams
Cost Savings
Reduce Operational Costs
Reduce Resources
Reduce Errors
Increase Uptime - 3. Automation Approaches
Scripts
Runbook Automation
Pros
- Readily Available
- 4. General Purpose
- 5. Low Cost
- 6. Viral Adoption
- Unmanaged
- 7. Task Oriented
- 8. System Specific
- 9. Hard to Modify
- 10. User Specific
- Top-Down Adoption
- 11. Workflow Oriented Approach
- 12. Bridges Islands of Technology
- 13. Easy to Modify
- 14. Self-Documenting
- 15. Mission Critical
- 16. Auditing, Security,
- Expensive
- 17. Proprietary
- 18. Limited Access to Users
- Islands of Knowledge
Domain Expert
- Administrator
- 19. Business Knowledge
- 20. Not necessarily a Programmer
- Programmer
- 21. Very Technical
- 22. Goals not necessary business aligned
- RBA
- 23. System Admin
- 24. End-User
- 25. Responsible for Business
- Leverage Skills
Combine the best scripting engine, with workflow technology.
Windows Workflow Foundation
PowerWF Studio
Scripts & API knowledge
PowerShell
Developers
(Scripters)
Domain
Experts
Business Knowledge &
Best Practices - 26. What is PowerShell?
PowerShell is an extensible automation engine.
Strength
Incredibly Powerful
Extensive Industry Support
Active Community
Weakness:
Scripts tend to be static
Script developers tend to think granularly
Requires .NET programming knowledge to excel. - 27. What is Workflow?
Visual Representation of a business process, similar to a flow-chart.
Strength
Self-Documenting
Easy to Modify
Dynamic
Think about WHAT not HOW.
Weakness
Low-Level Tasks are cumbersome.
Limited support from ISVs and Vendors.
Community support still emerging. - 28. Think Visual PowerShell
Breadth of coverage
Low barrier to entry
Visualize processes
Dynamic scripts
Leverage all stakeholders - 29. The PowerWF Approach
Discover
PowerWF automatically discovers the PowerShell Snapinsand Modules on your system. Each cmdlet is instantly available for building workflows. Even the Help and examples are imported. - 30. The PowerWF Approach
Visualize
Visualize script and business logic using simple drag & drop operations to build workflows. - 31. The PowerWF Approach
Extend
Domain experts can easily extend the workflow adding best practices and business logic. - 32. The PowerWF Approach
Integrate
PowerWF supports a wide range of deployment options to quickly and easily integrate workflows.
- Windows Application
- 33. PowerShell
- 34. System Center
- 35. Agent
- 36. 3rd party applications
- The PowerWF Approach
Reuse
PowerWF supports the ability to convert any workflow to PowerShell.Therefore each workflowbecomes a building block for other workflows or PowerShell Scripts to use. - 37. Leverage skills of the entire team
PowerShell experts create the building blocks of automation.
System Admins can then orchestrate across IT disciplines & teams
PowerShell
Scripter
Domain Expert
System Admin
End-User
Or
RBA Solution
Domain experts extend the with base cmdlets with Best Practices &
IT Business Processes
Integrate the solution to where you need it. - 38. PowerWF Extensibility
- 39. Orchestrate across IT disciplines
- 40. To Learn more visit our website
www.powerwf.com
Devfarm Software
2008 Altom Court
Saint Louis, Missouri 63146
(314) 590-5800
Twitter: @powerWF
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