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Aug 22
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Preparing for Digital Transformation: Implementing and Changing Processes to Suit the Digital World

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In middle to large organisations, we know that it takes time to change and implement new processes, especially when you are so used to the current systems in place. The manufacturing industry was first revolutionised with the introduction of the assembly line by Henry Ford, reducing production time and increasing efficiency. Gearing for the implementation of Industry 4.0, current insights have shown various trends potentially impacting the manufacturing industry – especially with the emerging internet of things (IoT) and big data in the last decade, data collection processes and analysis can be done quicker to provide actionable insights for manufacturers to act on. Not only that, advanced robotics and machine learning provides opportunities to increase efficiency whilst lowering operating expenses.

Knowing that changes are coming our way, the question really is: what can companies do to prepare for Digital Transformation?

  1. Assess your digital capability and potential to support further initiatives

Research done by the people from MIT Sloan School of Management suggests that companies should assess their digital advantage position by first identifying their digital maturity on the basis of digital intensity and transformation management intensity. What this really means is that companies need to be honest and ask themselves “Do I have the resources to support new digital initiatives? Will the management allow me to use more resources? Are they willing to take on these initiatives?”

  1. Learn from others – be aware of the competition and industry trends

If your company is a little more risk averse, you will still need to be on the lookout for what your peers or competitors are doing. This will mitigate risks of losing out to the competition too late, and ensure that you are able to plan things ahead. Not only that, by being aware of trends and what the competition is doing, you will also be able to learn from them – both the good and the bad!

  1. Decide on implementation approach

Another big consideration to make is – do you introduce new systems gradually across all locations (assuming you’re in multiple locations) or departments? Or is your implementation on a larger scale? Here are also some other considerations to think of:

  1. Do you build new applications and technologies?
  2. Can you use your existing infrastructure and legacy systems to create new applications?
  3. Will the new application work with your existing system?
  4. Do we need new applications, or can you just upgrade the existing system?

The tips above are general guidelines based on BAYPM’s experience and observations with current and former clients. We would love to help you with your Digital Transformation journey, give us a shout and we’ll be sure to assist you as best as we can. Currently, we are working on a project to digitise manual processes within different locations. The client opted for an incremental implementation approach based on geographical locations, and the needs of their different factories.

 

Mar 21
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Why we develop our SaaS solutions

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My co-founder Luis and I have been developing tailored solutions for years. One of the topics we specialise in is Contract Management. We have developed 4 different tailored contract management solutions for 4 different company and industry in the U.S. These development and implementation processes taught us a lot about why a company needs contract management solution and how it can benefit from it.

One day, we were in Asentex office in San Diego and chatting about the benefits of contract management and how it would be if we create an SaaS solution for companies that can’t afford a tailored solution to benefit from. This was 3 years ago, before wet met OutSystems. We had been using some other RAD tools and developing custom coded solutions back then but, RADs had significant constraints and custom coding was not an option to develop such a comprehensive solution. This had stopped us from making the next step.

Meeting OutSystems was the turning point. After creating a few applications to evaluate the platform capabilities, we realised it was the tool we needed to create the app we dreamed of. Our developers adopted the platform in a short time and it provided us all the abilities and ease to create the first phase of the application while designing the future of the product with confidence. In October 2017, we released the first version of eContractHub including the mobile app.

OutSystems reduced our development costs and saved considerable development time to enter to market. It helps us to shape the future of the product by effectively managing changes. As a partner and a customer of OutSystems, we trust OutSystems’s vision and build our product strategy on top of it.

Please visit econtracthub.com and create a free account to see what we built using OutSystems. eContractHub is a product of BAYPM.

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Jun 26
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Low-code Platforms and the Convergence of Modern App Dev

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The market for low-code application development has skyrocketed in the last 18 months. Why? The business drivers are clear and include the increased pressure on IT teams to deliver faster solutions, the shortage of developer talent across the globe, and the increased need for business agility. At the same time, the benefits and success stories of low-code development are also making news: doubling developer productivity, driving down total cost of ownership, and even reducing technical debt for old legacy systems.

Throughout 2016, and so far in 2017, interest in low-code platforms as the next evolution in modern app development has been exploding around the world. Yet despite its proliferation, many IT professionals simply aren’t yet aware of this revolutionary technology. They don’t yet know that it’s a highly effective way to help IT teams that are otherwise underwater deliver new web features, mobile apps and even conversational bots to the business.

If low-code platforms are proliferating, then why hasn’t everyone heard of them? One reason may simply be a matter of terminology. There are lots of different ways to refer to this technology, including:

  • Rapid application development (RAD) is the traditional term for the technology. While it stems from the 3GL software languages, more recently it has morphed into the world of cloud and continuous delivery when coupled with DevOps.
  • Rapid mobile application development (RMAD) is a term that Gartner coined to describe some low-code vendors focused on mobile UI and light integrations.
  • High-productivity aPaaS (application platform as a service) is another term from Gartner that denotes that market demand in the PaaS (platform as a service) space is now geared toward rapid app delivery rather than IaaS (infrastructure as a service).
  • No-code platforms are typically geared for specific development scenarios. App UI development is accelerated with pre-built components and some configuration, but capabilities can be quite limited and a “no-code” experience is not always guaranteed.
  • Low-code platform is our preferred term. It was originally coined in the 2016 Forrester Low-Code Platforms Wave and today it’s the dominant term used in the industry.

So now that we’ve cleared that up, what exactly is the promise of a low-code platform and why so much hype?

What Is a Low-Code Platform?

Essentially, low-code app development platforms help developers by automating all of the stages of the classic software development lifecycle. In doing so, they maximize velocity when it comes to things like delivering new functionality for web, mobile apps, and even micro services or APIs. Low-code platforms are able to deliver this because they have several core features:

  • Full-stack visual development
  • A wide variety of application types (e.g., transactional, workflow, mobile, headless)
  • The ability to integrate all data formats, protocols, and channels
  • One-click automated deployment with continuous integration and delivery

While some of these features have been around for a while, until low-code platforms there has never been a holistic app development platform that brought them all together, allowing app developers to turn ideas into high-quality apps faster and easier than ever before.

In case you’re wondering, low-code is a great way to develop all kinds of apps. There are many progressive organizations using a low-code platform to turbocharge their IT team as they tackle a variety of digital transformation challenges. Here are just a few examples:

  • Americares built a mobile app in three weeks to deliver aid in hurricane disaster areas.
  • US Acute Care Solutions hospital and emergency services IT team rapidly develops applications including governance, compliance, and controls to pass health care-specific audits.
  • Healthcare system Jose de Mello-Saude deployed 20 patient portals in nine months along with real-time scheduling.
  • The Worcestershire County Council redesigned local service delivery, transforming the customer experience, making services more cost-effective and accomplishing more with fewer resources (ROI = 442 percent).

As you can see, with a low-code platform it’s possible to develop serious core systems either as a standalone system or on top of existing ERP / CRM systems. That helps explain why there is a revolution taking place across the entire app development tooling market, and why there are such high expectations for this technology. Last year, Forrester predicted that the market would reach a total size of $6 billion by 2018. Currently, there is an arms race among business process management (BPM) vendors, API vendors, and others to rush into this market. Now, it’s quite possible that by 2020 the market could scale up to $25 billion, taking into account the various subcategories.

For those least familiar with this space, we recommend checking out these resources:

  1. The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Development Platforms, Q2 16
  2. Gartner Magic Quadrant for High-Productivity Application Platform as a Service 2017
  3. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms 2017

When evaluating what separates the leaders from the pack in these analyst research reports, you’ll discover that it essentially boils down to:

  • The maturity of the platforms and vendors in supporting full-stack visual development (i.e., they’re not just UI WYSIWYG).
  • Creating run-times optimized for performance.
  • Supporting a community of pre-built components that can easily be included in the dev process.
  • Having holistic automation between development and DevOps stages, including deployment automation that provides speed with quality.
  • Out-of-the-box features that address non-functional requirements for enterprises, such as security, scalability, reliability, traceability, governability, etc.
  • The vendors that score the highest across these factors tend to be the ones more highly rated by customers in their digital transformation journeys.

Having been rated a leader in the last four Magic Quadrants and Waves related to low-code, OutSystems is recognized as the leading vendor. We’ve been pursuing our vision for 10 years with profitable growth and are focused on creating value for our customers.

Why not start by experimenting with the free edition of OutSystems platform? It’s free forever!

Lopes, M. (2017, June 22). Low-Code Platforms and the Convergence of Mobile App Development. Retrieved from http://www.outsystems.com

Oct 25
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The Age of Mobility

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I was talking to a friend who works in IT department of a company a few weeks ago. He is living in a non-central location of Istanbul and I wanted to know how many hours he was spending commuting every day. The answer was striking. 2 hours one way! This means 4 hours a day spent on the road every day. 20 hours a week and roughly 80 hours a month. Isn’t that crazy? He spends more than 3 days a month of his life commuting for a job he could perfectly perform at home.

Now ask yourself, how many people you know around you in the same situation? At the age of mobility, can’t we work smarter? In the past years, we have faster and more stable internet and mobile devices 24/7 closer than any other thing. Time has came to turn this to an advantage for companies, especially the ones located in big cities with crazy long commutes like Istanbul.

Here at BayPM, we have been working mobile for the past three years. I personally lived in Spain and United States during this time and I am now spending 2 weeks a month in London. We have clients abroad that we provide service every day and our team is working mobile most of the time. We gather once or twice a week to touch base with the team for our weekly meetings.This could also be performed on web, but I think is positive to keep in touch face to face when possible. The rest of it, totally mobile! Every project is  tracked, every time spent can be reported and team members are in touch like we are in an office,

World is going mobile, no doubt. Each day tech companies are creating new business solutions that fit our needs. I don’t claim every person in a company can perform their job remotely but, there is definitely some positions that can be performed remotely. This means money saving for the  company and life quality for the employees.

If you are still thinking your company is not eligible to work remotely, you are just not aware what is doable with technology.

We are at the age of mobility. Take advantage of technology and work smarter.

Mehmet Arif Bay
Founder of BayPM Software & Business Process Management

Jan 11
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BayPM launches new logo

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We are thrilled to announce that BayPM has a new corporate image, starting with a new logo from the hands of Creaconic, an Istanbul based studio design with who we trusted to design our new image. BayPM’s new logo identify  Information Technology and Software Development industry and matches all our expectations.

Thanks to all our team and Creaconic’s team to make it possible 

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Sep 02
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Cemete Electronic Money and Payment Services is Turkey’s first licensed electronic money organization

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shutterstock_184049348_133215131624Cemete and BayPM worked together to design and implement the infrastructure, core system, business and electronic money processes as well as the independent audit and license file preparation for Cemete to become Turkey’s first licensed electronic money organization.

With the second legislation made with law No. 6493 by BDDK, Cemete set out to operate transferring money as a primary operation and focusing primarily on electronic money.

BayPM developed the entire money transfer solution for Cemete including all processes and foreign system integrations. Based on BDDK’s second legislation, Cemete had to fulfill all of the enterprise system infrastructure, security, accessibility, and redundancy principles requirements as mandated to banks. We are proud to announce that the software and system infrastructure passed independent audits.

Cemete business processes are built based on Cobit principles.

BayPM we shared an arduous one year journey with Cemete to accomplish their goal. Congratulations Cemete and we wish you all the best.

Learn more about Cemete: www.cemete.com.tr

Jun 06
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Interneer Named a Finalist for the 2014 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award

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Los Angeles, CA, May 6, 2014 — Interneer, Inc., a leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software forprocess automation applications and Smart Mobile Apps, today announced the release of an updated Intellect MobileApps supporting offline capabilities for “Smart Mobile Apps” built on Interneer Intellect and deployed as a native enterprise mobile app on any iOS mobile device. This new feature enables organizations to significantly improve the productivity of mobile workers in the field with the need to enter enterprise data and capture photos while on the go, with or without internet connectivity.

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Mar 29
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Process Apps and the Future of Business Processes: Speaking with Romeo Elias

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Listen to my podcast with Romeo Elias, the Founder and CEO of Interneer, Inc. Romeo Elias is a BPM expert and in this podcast we discuss the recent announcement from Interneer about Smart Mobile Apps, their system to enable the creation of customized, true native iOS applications for enterprise use.

Schooff: Hello, this is Peter Schooff, Managing Editor at BPM.com and today I have the pleasure of speaking with Romeo Elias, the Founder and CEO of Interneer, Incorporated. He’s an experienced software executive, BPM expert, patented inventor, and entrepreneur advisor and today we’re going to discuss a recent upcoming announcement from Interneer, which is about apps for business processes, which at BPM.com we found really interesting. So first of all Romeo, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast.

Elias:: Thank you, Peter, I appreciate it.

Schooff: So as I’ve prefaced, I found your announcement very interesting. Can you just give me a quick overview of the world of apps for business processes as it is right now and then going forward?

Elias:: Absolutely Peter. The thing that we have been observing in the market, specifically, with the advent of mobility and the whole mobile world is that it’s been very, very disruptive, as you probably know. And today, there are more mobile devices in the world than there are people. This year the sale of tablets and smart phones has exceeded desktops and PCs. Everything is transforming mobility for a day-to-day employee is no longer an option. It has become something that they need to have access to no matter where they’re at.

At the same time, if you look at how mobility has changed the expectation of people and then how they deal with apps, what you’ll notice is that there’s this expectation now that they have to be accessible from anywhere, that they’re very ubiquitous. They have to be very easy, very simple; they do certain things very well. They’re not these complex things that do everything as we’re used to with enterprise apps in the office. And so at the same time, people can download any app they want, they can customize apps, they can get apps that empower them to build things, and change things.

And if you look at what we do with our smart mobile phones today, it’s funny to me that 20 years ago people would say I don’t even know how to program my VCR. Whereas today, they have this massive computer on their phone and they do so many things with it. So this whole self-service nature of it has also become ubiquitous and people just — they expect that they can learn things and do things themselves, and not always have to be relying on experts, and programmers, and so on.

So all those things have changed the expectation on how we deal with apps and specifically business apps. So business apps from a business user standpoint, the expectation is that they have to be easy to use, they have to be easy to change and deploy, they have to be accessible anywhere and ubiquitous, and they also need to access their backend data and systems so that they’re not standalone, something that is completely sitting on an island. And when you look at companies and what options they have today, there’s some limitations and gaps in the market and has the ability to access these kinds of apps and to deploy these for their employees and users and who isn’t able to and this is kind of part of the problem that we’re trying to solve.

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Mar 04
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Interneer Named by KMWorld as One of 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management

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Los Angeles, CA, March 3, 2014 – Interneer, Inc., a leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software for process automation applications and Smart Mobile Apps, today announced that it has been named to the 14th annual KMWorld Magazine list of 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management. The Interneer Intellect BPM platform was recognized for enabling organizations to easily and quickly build new generation business apps with robust mobile enterprise capabilities.

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