Bulk attachment download for Creatio

Problem Statement

Downloading the attached files/documents in the Attachment detail is a manual process attained recurrently for all the available files which are time-consuming and sometimes it leads a business user to miss out on a file download during the manual routine of a singular file.

Solution

Bulk attachment download for Creatio add-on helps any business user of Creatio to download all the files in the Attachment detail through a hassle-free mechanism (equipped by one-button click).

Business Use Case

  • Any business user of Creatio has to download the attached files to strategize different channels such as verification/approvals/agreement.
  • Using Bulk attachment download for Creatio Add-on, enable the user to download all the required files with a focus on running a smoother business and reducing the operation load of an individual user.

Bulk attachment download for Creatio: Add-on setup

This add-on is available in all the Creatio products (Attachment detail) and it is supported in both on-premises and cloud implementation. Download the add-on from the Creatio marketplace and install it in the Creatio CRM instance.
Visit the Creatio Marketplace to download/install the add-on package Bulk attachment download for Creatio.

Features

Any business organization (owns Creatio Low-code/No-Code CRM of any module) where the business flow has to be executed without any discrepancy or break in the process of verification/approval.

Bulk attachment download for Creatio add-on feature is available across all the product bundles of Creatio CRM to ensure conventional use and meet the business requirement.

  • Bulk attachment download facilitates the user to download all the files in the attachment detail of all the OOTB sections or any custom section.

 

  • Download option is equipped at user convenience level. The user can select the required files alone and download them or download all the attachment files in one go with a simple button click.

Depicts all the files/documents of the attachment detail are downloaded

*Only the attachments or documents of type “File” gets downloaded

Find the add-on demo here

Bulk attachment download for Creatio

Privilege of Bulk attachment download

Domains of large scale sectors such as banking, insurance use the process of verification/approvals in loan, credit, insurance file and claim.
This feature helps in eliminating the files that get missed to download for the business flow (Verification/approval/agreement) during individual download.

AgilizTech, a trusted partner for Creatio does customization for them. To know more on how we do customization for a business as per their requirements visit our AgilizTech – Creatio blog.

Microsoft Forms Connector – Creatio

Problem Statement

A webpage created externally and linked to the Lead object of Creatio CRM to capture the response submitted in the webform and mapped it to the corresponding object (say, Lead) to create a record that involves writing code from creating a web form and integrating it to Creatio Lead object which is a time-consuming process.

Solution

Microsoft Forms connector was created which enables the organization sales team to capture the lead in a seamless mechanism and nurture to achieve a sale which also enhances the sales growth of an organization. Microsoft Forms connector utilize Microsoft Forms to create a customize lead capture form in minutes and consume Power Automate to automatically capture the form response submitted by the user which is then inserted as a record in an object of Creatio CRM site.

In this blog, learn the guidelines about implementing the Microsoft Forms Connector.

Setup Guide for Connector

Visit the Marketplace for the Setup instruction <Marketplace Microsoft-forms-connector-creatio>.
We will provide you with the Microsoft Forms Connector for Creatio as a packaged solution.

Microsoft Forms Connector – Creatio

Pre-requisite: Kindly register with Microsoft with a valid account (Setup a valid Microsoft Account) to create a Microsoft Forms and Microsoft cloud automated flow.

After the successful Microsoft account creation, Open the Power Automate of Microsoft (flow.microsoft.com) and select the solutions menu listed in the left panel of the window. Kindly proceed to click on the Import option at the top and select browse to choose the Zip package provided by AgilizTech. Click on the Next button and you will see an import button. Kindly click on import to install the custom created Microsoft Forms connector into your Microsoft environment.

Figure 1:

After the successful implementation, you will see a new solution named Creatio Solution added to the list as depicted in Figure 2 below.

Figure 2:

Setup for Microsoft Automated Cloud flow procedure

Create a Microsoft Form with the Microsoft that was created earlier. A Microsoft form can be created based on the custom business need with any of the below fields.

  1. Text (Paragraph)
  2. Text (Line)
  3. Date/Time
  4. Number
  5. Email
  6. Drop-down List

Share the Microsoft Form URL (Shorten the URL if needed) after finding the target audience and it can be shared Via e-mail and social networks also.

Figure 3:

Setup of the Landing page in Creatio CRM site

Now, create a Landing page in Creatio CRM Site which acts as a medium to allow the Microsoft Forms response to insert as a record into the Lead object.
Go to Landing Pages and Web Forms section in Creatio (available in Marketing & Service workspace) and click on New, then select Lead registration form from the drop-down. Provide the Name*
for the new landing page and set the Website domains* as https://flow.miocrosoft.com since the request is sent from Microsoft flow to Creatio CRM (in consideration of authentication).

Figure 4:

Setup of Automated Cloud flow to capture a Lead into Creatio

We will create a Microsoft flow like Business Process in Creatio with its own features. Open the Power Automate and select My flows from the available menu in the left panel. Click on New flow and select Automated cloud flow from the dropdown. Set a name for your flow and set choose your flow’s trigger value* as when a new response is submitted. This helps to trigger the Microsoft flow when a Microsoft Form is submitted.

1.Select the formId value as the form name that got created (all the forms will be displayed in the displayed in dropdown select the required form name).

2.Click on Next Step to create a new step as adding a new element in Creatio BP. Select Microsoft Forms and select Actions, then choose Get Response details, then set Response Id field value as Response Id which is used to collect the values from the submitted form.

3.Click on the next step, select the custom tab in the newly added step and select Creatio connector.

Figure 5:

Set the instance name and formid values. Both these values are obtained from the Creatio CRM site.

*Instance_name – You Creatio CRM Site (agiliztechwww.agiliztech.creatio.com)

Formid – Your Landing page record id. (It is found inside the landing page record created in Figure 4). Now, bind the form response to the Fields of the Creatio Object and click on save.

Figure 6:

NOTE: The Creatio object field name should be provided in formFieldsData name and dynamic response is given to corresponding formFieldsData value to map the field values of Microsoft forms to the field of Creatio object.

After the successful setup, when your Microsoft Form is submitted, the automated flow gets triggered which has Creatio connector (holds Target site name & Landing Page) is executed and a record is inserted into Lead object.

Figure 7:

Figure 8:

Privilege of Microsoft Forms Connector

This Microsoft Forms connector helps in reducing the amount of time required to develop the code to build the webpage and minimize the amount of time required to integrate the webform response to the Creatio CRM site Lead object. This Connector acts as a single stop solution to create a lead with less investment of time, resulting in capturing more lead and enhancing sales.

AgilizTech, a trusted partner for Creatio does customization for them. To know more on how we do customization for a business as per their requirements visit our AgilizTech – Creatio blog

2020 Creatio Accelerate Global-A must-attend event!!

Creatio has announced its upcoming event Accelerate Global to be held worldwide. It is a unique event that will be live-streamed for 24 hours. Having conducted 12 plus offline Accelerate events in various countries, this virtual event is a compilation of the insights from the offline events.

Get ideas from business leaders that will help shape the future of your business. The event is attended by IT and digital leaders to learn successful strategies and how to build a low-code company. Low-code being the future of enterprise software, this event revolves around how low-code can transform your business, how business leaders and industry experts transformed and accelerated their business processes in few months, and how companies transformed sales, marketing, and services.

What is in store for business and IT leaders in this event?

  • Insights to help turn your business challenges into opportunities and look at the future of enterprise software in a different way for business and digital leaders
  • Insights on winning strategies and practical cases for automating front and middle office processes in your vertical business and digital leaders
  • Practical knowledge about leveraging Creatio’s low-code platform for IT and digital leaders, citizen developers, and users of the Creatio platform
  • How to accelerate transformation with the #1 low-code platform or professional developers and technical leaders
  • Open discussions with Creatio leadership and product teams, as well as updates on Creatio vision, strategy, and roadmap for partners.

The event speakers list includes visionaries, industry analysts and experts, Creatio leadership, customers, and partners, to provide insights to help organizations worldwide turn their business challenges into opportunities.

Attend this global event:

To learn how low-code changes the game for enterprises

Get opportunities to network with brilliant minds from various industries

To deep dive into a #1 low-code platform for front-office and operational processes to help you build a low-code enterprise.

Creatio (formerly bpm’online) is a global software company providing a leading low-code platform for process management and CRM. The company has been highly recognized as a market leader by key industry analysts. Its intelligent products accelerate sales, marketing, service, and operations for mid-size and large enterprises.

AgilizTech, partner for Creatio helps organizations across the globe with the implementation of advanced CRM solutions. With the help of Creatio technologies and solutions, we help organizations to simplify their business processes and successfully grow their business.

Join us for the exciting Accelerate Global event and connect with peers from various industries and locations and be part of the 24-hour attendee-driven online conference.

Register for free and save your seat now!! Let’s be a part of the amazing event and learn how to create a low-code company!

Top 8 tips to master cloud migration

With the constant and rapid changes happening in industries, organizations need to adapt quickly to the changes, be flexible to customer demands, and continuously stay ahead of the competition.

Most of the organizations are considering modernizing critical applications by migrating to the cloud. Every product that comes to the market today assures speed, efficiency and cost savings, and so it becomes imperative for businesses to cope up with this to stay ahead in the competition. Introducing the new system to your existing one needs to have practical considerations like moving the critical data from one system to another, looking to improve in-house skills, etc. This white paper Eight tips for mastering migration explains in detail how successfully an organization can migrate to the cloud.

A successful migration is the outcome of a well-defined approach that streamlines and accelerates the cloud migration journey. Various cloud providers are offering open-source, cloud-based, and automated tools and services.

Using solutions like Carbonite allows you to easily migrate physical, virtual, and cloud workloads to and from any environment with minimal risk and near-zero downtime. It helps in protecting personal and business data from common forms of data loss.

This post summarizes the eight tips on mastering the cloud migration process mentioned in the above white paper.

  • Analysing Cost of Downtime–

Any kind of downtime leads to significant costs with far-reaching impact on the business. Evaluating the cost of downtime depends on various factors.  Most of the businesses fail to do this even after experiencing it. A business needs to consider the cost of the problem before considering how much the fix is going to cost.

  • Use the right migration tool –

Migration tools used by most of the public service providers are often platform-dependent, engineered for one type of migration scenario only. A good migration tool offers flexibility and durability for mission-critical systems and data subject to regulatory compliance.

  • Outline your migration process –

Planning is a crucial part of migrating to the cloud. Though you have a well-defined plan for the pre-migration process, still you may fail in the migration process due to an improper post-migration plan.

  • Organize your workloads –

With a huge number of workloads, migration may become difficult. Depending on the size of the project, it is important to organize the workloads into groups based on the criticality, difficulty, performance, and more.

  • Perform automated and continuous testing-

Testing is very important for successful migration as it helps in assessing the success and failure of the operations.

  • Hire the right service provider –

An expert service provider can help in meeting your migration needs, minimize risks of migration failures, and help in reducing the costs.

  • Long term vision –

Have a long term goal while planning for your migration journey. Invest in tools and methodologies that can help in the present as well as future projects.

  • Utilize the migration to the maximum –

While considering migration for your business, assess your business continuity plans. See to it that the migration provides optimal coverage of new as well as old systems.

These tips can help your organization to avoid the common problems and migrate successfully to the cloud. AgilizTech cloud experts can offer expert consultation and create a roadmap for all your cloud migration requirements.

5 Key Considerations for Cloud Migration

Migrating your organization’s IT workload to cloud is a crucial decision and immediately alters the way you operate the business. With the current pandemic bringing changes at an increasing pace, we are forced to make quick decisions and this has accelerated the need for cloud migration for many companies.

Cloud migration being a complex process, before the migration lot of things need to be calculated like:

  • Which cloud service providers best meet your needs?
  • How would you calculate the cost of cloud migration and operation?
  • How to ensure service continuity during and after the move?
  • What kind of security measures should be taken and how to be prepared?

 

There are several key considerations that businesses must think about while planning for cloud migration, but we will discuss 5 significant considerations that need to be considered before migrating to the cloud:

Infrastructure assessment

Your organization should assess its readiness before cloud migration and this requires few preparations like outlining cloud migration plan, training the employees on operating the cloud environment, ensuring applications and processes are compatible with cloud, and have the right security protocols in place.

Cloud workload analysis

While migrating workloads to the cloud, some may not be appropriate to move. Before migrating, you need to ensure up-to-date versions of the operating system and database. Systems that are phased out or nearing expiry will not be supported by the Cloud Service Providers.

Disaster recovery and back up policies

Organizations need to be prepared for any kind of disaster be it hardware failures, cyber-attacks, or natural calamities. Business continuity in times of disasters depends largely on the ability to replicate the systems and data. Hence, organizations need to evaluate their back up policies and ways to map them with their Cloud Service Providers.

Data security

Migrating your data and storing it in the cloud needs to be safe and secure. While data is being transitioned from one system to the other you need to ensure that it is properly secured. Organizations should coordinate with the service providers for the implementation of well-defined security policies.

Access to Cloud service

Access to the data and applications by your users will change once migrated to the cloud. Hence, at the time of the cloud migration planning phase, the user experience impact needs to be assessed and considered.

Embrace the right Cloud Migration journey for your organization

These are just a few of the important things that must be considered before you migrate to the cloud. For a successful cloud migration, an organization needs to have an elaborate cloud migration strategy and definite business goals. Cloud migration when implemented in a phased manner minimizes the impact on the existing customers of the organization.

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, social distancing measures were put in place with most of the workforce being forced to work from home. As most of the organizations were not prepared for this situation, this is when cloud automation platforms helped the most.

How choosing the right cloud platform (Public, Private, or Hybrid) is essential, similarly selecting the right Cloud Service Provider is also equally important. With a competent cloud team, AgilizTech can help you in implementing the right cloud infrastructure and hosting environment ensuring benefits like flexibility, scalability, data redundancy, enhanced availability, cost efficiency among others.

 

5R Strategy for Cloud Migration

Cloud migration offers immense benefits to organizations and to name a few are scalability, cost-effectiveness, and increased performance. In this post learn about the strategy built upon 5R which can be implemented by organizations to migrate applications to the cloud.

Gartner, a highly influential information technology research company, describes 5 options for organizations migrating to the cloud. These cloud migration strategies are commonly known as the “5 R’s”.

Developing a Migration strategy

Organizations should not miss out on the opportunity to modernize considering today’s IT ecosystem.  The cloud migration strategy adopted by your organization is the vision of how to move your applications to the cloud.

Every organization has different business requirements and hence will follow a slightly different process in cloud migration. They need to decipher what is in their environment, what are the interdependencies, what is going to be easy and hard to migrate, and how they’ll migrate each application.

Organizations must have a proper plan and approach to migrate each of their application and in what order to do it. A successful strategy will maximize your value from cloud infrastructure while minimizing migration time, effort, cost, and risk.

Let us understand the 5R strategy to migrate applications to cloud:

1. Rehost

Rehost or the Lift and Shift approach. Rehosting is a process of moving your applications from on-premises to cloud environments without modification. This strategy involves minimal risk and effort. It also reduces infrastructure and operating costs. This will benefit the organization in the long-term as it will encourage a cloud-first approach for the company and develop skills within the business.

AWS VM Import/Export, Racemi are few of the tools with which rehosting can be automated.

2. Re platform

Replatform or the Lift Tinker and Shift method which involves moving the applications as it is, with a small amount of up versioning. In this strategy, few optimizations are made before migrating to the cloud, like switching from self-hosted infrastructure to managed services and switching from commercial software to open source.

You may minimize the amount of time you spend managing database instances by migrating to a database-as-a-service platform like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), or migrating your application to a fully managed platform like Amazon Elastic Beanstalk.

3. Refactor

Refactor or rearchitect is a method of transforming non-cloud application into a cloud-native application. It calls for a complete overhaul of an application to adapt it to the cloud. Organizations looking to modify their applications and infrastructure from a monolithic architecture to a service-oriented (or server-less) architecture can use this strategy to boost agility or improve business continuity and maximize operational cost efficiency in the cloud.

4. Retire

While migrating a project to the cloud you might identify applications that are redundant and closing them down can save you on costs. The savings will ultimately enhance the business case, direct your team’s scarce attention to the things that people use, and lower the surface area you must secure.

5. Retain

When a business has highly invested in on-premise applications, or currently has active development projects, or have applications that require high performance, existing applications are working well, organizations that need to comply with strict regulations where the data is on-premise, in such conditions they should migrate when it is required too, otherwise retaining applications on-premise seems a better option.

AgilizTech cloud solution experts can offer a structured 5R migration strategy that can smoothly integrate with any kind of cloud deployment – be it public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud.

Learn more on Cloud Migration 

I hope this post has given you an understanding of what is 5R cloud migration strategy and you can come to a decision on migrating to the cloud only after careful analysis. We are there to answer all your queries.

 

6 Important Benefits of an Extended Team Model

What is Extended Team Model?

Extended Team Model (ETM) is a form of outsourcing strategy wherein the offshore in-house team is augmented or extended by a virtual team of developers. The key competency remains with the core in-house team and any skill gaps in the core staff are bridged by the extended team.

How ETM is different from other models?

  1. ETM complements the in-house staff, rather than replacing it. It is aimed at filling the gaps in expertise of the core team to enhance its overall potential.
  2. The responsibilities are distributed evenly among all team members in the in-house and offshore team. All the team members are equally responsible for the success of the project.
  3. It’s not necessary that the extended team is dissolved after the project is completed, rather they may be considered for long-term collaboration.

 

Key Benefits of ETM

1. Efficient team work

Extended Team model enables dynamic development process and the team has greater synchronisation since all the team members are on the same page. The team members directly communicate with each other, and this eliminates the middlemen, resulting in streamlined communication.

2. Increased transparency and control

The company has complete control over the processes as the extended team is incorporated into the in-house team. The teams share unified repositories for source code control and bug tracking, which gives the client or the product owner complete transparency and updated information on the project development.

3. Shared accountability

Increased synchronisation between the teams leads to shared responsibility and accountability for the overall quality of the project and promotes a collaborative approach.

4. Improved scalability and agility

ETM allows the company to scale the team depending on the current project needs, without having to deal with recruiting and other administrative work. It helps to add team members, while enabling the company to focus on its core business needs. At the same time, it enables the project teams to respond better to changing customer needs, hence improving the agility of the project team.

5. Best talent and motivated developers

The developers are assigned to the project full-time and the team members are highly motivated, working towards a common goal.

6. Cost savings

Adopting ETM results in substantial cost savings for the company, as it helps to choose from an international resource pool according to the desired skills and rates. It also avoids spending effort, money and time in the continuous recruiting and training of staff.

Thus, ETM provides an easy start with high scalability and enhanced effort cohesion in the team, as well as a faster time-to-market for new products. However, this model requires good and clear communication between the team members and the various communication channels must be identified and kept open always.

 

When should you consider ETM?

  1. It is the most convenient option when your own in-house team already has developers, but there are some limitations in the in-house talent pool.
  2. Ongoing projects that expand gradually over time and substantial manpower is required to maintain.
  3. Long-term projects with an evolving set of requirements wherein the required technologies are not available.
  4. Projects which have secondary projects within them, and you prefer the extended team to work on the secondary projects, so that the in-house team focuses on the main project in core business.

 

Is Extended Team a good option?

Extended Team Model can be considered as a reliable go-to outsourcing model when you want to scale your in-house team of developers efficiently. We, at AgilizTech, can help you to expand your team with a hassle-free setup and take care of all operational tasks.

AgilizTech empowers women on Women’s day – #Eachforequality

“An equal world is an enabled world”

From #MeToo to #TimesUp and now #EachForEqual, it’s been a gripping year that took the world by storms. This international women’s day the theme #EachForEqual is drawn from the concept of collective individualism.

As individuals, our actions, conversations, behavior, mindset can have an impact on society and unitedly we can strive to create a gender-equal world.

This year International Women’s Day was a surprise for the women of AgilizTech. We received a customized card with our picture and a few lines describing us.

At AgilizTech, we take initiatives that drive a positive change which could be in terms of hiring employees, having celebrations, giving a platform where everyone gets an opportunity to speak, taking employee feedback or any small gesture that can change the environment around us.

Here is what our women had to share about their experience at AgilizTech:

AgilizTech is superb. I got to explore and learn new things and everyone is given an equal opportunity and to grow. Thank you team AgilizTech.

Shailey Narula, Senior Business Analyst

This is my 2nd women’s day celebration at AgilizTech. It’s been a wonderful experience and a great place to work.  Irrespective of gender, everyone is given an opportunity. I still need to learn and achieve more.

Sriraksha KS, Senior Developer

AgilizTech is an awesome workplace and it is fun to work here. The team is very supportive and we are given equal opportunities to grow.

Moon Moon Roy, HR Executive

The working environment is fun and loving at AgilizTech and learned a lot from my seniors. We get opportunities to learn new technologies and it feels good to be here.

Sneha Tulsyan, Software Developer

I feel awesome being here. The respect women get here is applaudable. I’m working with an amazing team and learning new things.

Neeraja M, Associate Software Developer

Happy to be a part of AgilizTech family. I’m very comfortable working here. I would like to thank all the male colleagues for this amazing surprise.

Ramyashree C, Associate Software Developer

AgilizTech rocks. I have been a part of this family since inception and have grown along with the company. I have carved my career path with an amazing team.

Nikitha, Software Testing Engineer

It’s been a new journey for me and every moment I cherish being here. I get a lot to learn here. Thank you, team.

Sruthi Das, DevOps Engineer

It feels great to be a part of this lively environment and have always received positiveness and inspiration from the team.

Sudha Gangiredla, Intern

I have joined AgilizTech as a content writer, but have been lucky enough to explore various opportunities. Thank you one and all for the support and enthusiasm.

Gayathri, Senior Content Developer

“There is no limit to what we, as women can accomplish” – Michelle Obama

AgilizTech’s vision extends beyond gender to appreciating all the ways women are different, be it age, caste, ethnicity, abilities, cultural background and other things that make us who we are. Our women look forward to achieving more and become better. With the spirit of #EachforEqual, we can make a collective effort in sharing our experiences and building a strong foundation for our career.

Top 5 reasons why DevOps is important for an Organisation

DevOps can be termed as a set of practices that promote collaboration between the Development, Testing and Operations team in an organisation, to deploy applications and services in production faster and in a streamlined manner. Hence, DevOps is the key to the success of an organisation.

TechBeacon cites that leading companies such as Facebook, Adobe, Netflix, and Sony Pictures Entertainment have attained tangible business and technical benefits.

 

Here are the top five reasons why DevOps is needed

Automation of Delivery Processes

DevOps approach focuses on standardizing the development environment and automating delivery processes so that both the Development and Operations teams can deliver high quality software and manage reliable infrastructure in production with increased speed. The collaboration resulting in sharing of tools and processes between teams enables the teams to deliver the required changes quickly and keep the platform secure and available to meet the business needs and customer demand in today’s dynamic world.

TechBeacon states that Amazon witnessed increased deployment frequency with its engineers deploying code every 11.7 seconds on an average, after it moved to Amazon Web Services cloud.

A stable operating environment and shorter development cycles lead to faster innovation for an enterprise.

Increased Visibility of Infrastructure Requirement

Tight coupling between the developers and Operations team ensures that developers provide inputs on redundancy, projection about failover and storage requirements. According to 2017 State of DevOps Report, this helps the Operations team to provide scalable infrastructure, reliable and fast disaster recovery, reduced deployment failure and rollover, and maintain data centre locations, thus giving increased customer satisfaction. It also allows for simultaneous deployment across different platforms.

According to a recent survey in Rackspace.com, 52% of DevOps users saw an increase in customer satisfaction, 43% users have experienced improved customer engagement and 38% users witnessed a sales increase.

Improved Performance and Productivity of Teams

Increased communication and collaboration lead to better productivity and happy teams, as it enhances the software development culture as well as saves time. The culture focuses on improved performance rather than individual goals, understanding of each other’s processes and accountability from both Development and Operation teams, allowing seamless process integration as all team members work towards a common goal.The tools and techniques adopted in DevOps allow parallel workflows to be implemented in the continuous development chain to avoid delays when one team waits for another to complete work.

According to TechBeacon, Sony Pictures Entertainment has reduced its delivery time from few months to minutes, during the release of its software to manage entertainment assets for its end users, using the continuous delivery model of DevOps.

Business Agility and Business Value

As companies increasingly lean on cloud infrastructure, it becomes crucial to implement DevOps principles.  DevOps helps the organisation to market its services and products at a faster rate, thereby gaining a competitive advantage over its competitors. Furthermore, the principles ensure scalable business for an enterprise. The practices also enable an organisation to be flexible in balancing its capacity as per demand fluctuations and be more agile in terms of product complexity and time.

Wall Street Journal quotes that Adobe has been able to meet 60 percent more app development demand.

Another integral benefit of DevOps is that it also integrates security into the software development processes.

Reduced Overall Costs

Implementing DevOps methodology reduces overall operational costs and IT staff requirements due to better productivity from staff and optimal resource utilisation. According to Red Hat, development teams require 35 percent less IT staff and 30 percent lower IT costs.  The continuous delivery model improves the product or process quality, thereby reduced production failures and infrastructure failures lead to cost savings. Network downtime costs are avoided since DevOps provides efficient code with its automated testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery practices. It also brings down the software release costs.

As per TechBeacon, Fidelity Worldwide Investment has avoided spending $2.3 million when it adopted DevOps approach for launching a critical trading application.

Thus, business and technology developments have become the key drivers to implement DevOps practices. DevOps philosophy aids to evolve and improve products at a rapid rate, serve customers better and compete effectively in the market.

To adopt DevOps strategy, the organisation faces a few challenges such as the need to promote a shift in the work culture to embrace new methods and tools, refine skill set of people performing deployment and testing, establish common operational procedures and standardized processes and switch from legacy infrastructure.

To reap the benefits of DevOps in your organisation, you need a flexible, cost-effective and reliable outsourcing partner who can improve your workflow and productivity, and deliver business value. AgilizTech’s team of competent DevOps experts and innovative consulting services help you to scale your business, decide on where to invest on resources and boost business growth.

 

Lead and Opportunity Turn Around Time (TAT) in Creatio (formerly bpm’online)

Problem Statement

At every lead/opportunity stage only the ‘start date’ and ‘end date’ could be captured in Creatio, but not the average time spent on each stage. As a lead progresses in different stages, it is important to know the time spent in each stage.

Solution

Lead and Opportunity turn around time (TAT) template was created which allows the sales team to view the time spent at each lead and opportunity stage, and also see the average TAT across all the active leads and opportunities in the CRM. The template makes use of the ‘start’ and ‘due’ dates captured in Creatio for each lead/opportunity stage changes to compute TAT in hours and days for that stage. An overall dashboard will display the average TAT across all active leads/opportunities. A daily job will keep on updating the TAT for leads & opportunities that are lying open in any intermediate stage.

In this blog, learn the guidelines on how to use the Lead and Opportunity TAT template.

Guide For Using The Template

Install the template from Creatio marketplace <https://marketplace.creatio.com/template/lead-and-opportunity-tat-dashboard>.

Lead Stage Turn Around Time (TAT)

Individual lead’s stage wise TAT

After installing the template, in lead section, in ‘history’ tab, to the ‘stages’ detail, add two new columns say ‘TAT Hrs’ and ‘TAT Days’. These fields will display the TAT in Days and in Hours for each stage based on the ‘start’ and ‘due’ dates.

Figure 1:

lead and opportunity tat

 

Average lead TAT
A new tab called ‘Lead TAT’ will be added in the lead section dashboard. Two bar charts are added to display average lead TAT in hours and in days, at each stage across all active leads. If you need to view the average TAT across different customer needs/verticals, please copy the dashboard and put necessary filters.

Creatio
Opportunity Stage TAT

Individual opportunity stage wise TAT
In the opportunity section, in the ‘opportunity history’ tab, to the ‘stages’ detail, add two new columns say ‘TAT Hrs’ and ‘TAT Days’. These fields will display the TAT in Days and in Hours for each stage based on the ‘start’ and ‘end’ dates.

Creatio
Average Opportunity TAT
The dashboard tab ‘Opportunity TAT’ in opportunity section will display the average TAT across all opportunities.

lead opportunity TAT
Daily Job
Daily job is setup which will run at 4.00 AM GMT to update the TAT against leads and opportunities that are lying in same intermediate stage for the whole day.

Say if an opportunity is in ‘proposal’ stage for the whole day and not being moved, the TAT will be updated by next day morning 4.00AM. If the next day also the opportunity lies in the same stage, the next run of the job will keep adding the TAT days against ‘proposal’ stage for that opportunity. Finally when the stage is advanced, actual TAT will be updated.
Additional addon to enhance dashboard
The average plots might show more than 2 decimal digits initially. Please install ‘custom chart options’ add on from the Creatio marketplace (https://marketplace.bpmonline.com/app/chart-custom-options-bpmonline) and insert the below JSON to make the data points in the chart rounded to 2 digits. Additionally, if you need to display “hrs” or “days” along with the value, please add the appropriate string.

“JSON:”: {
“plotOptions”: {
“bar”: {
“dataLabels”: {Creatio
“enabled”: true,
“format””: “{point.y:,.2f} Hrs”,
“style”: {
“fontWeight”: 500                                 
}
}
}
},
}

Benefits of this template
This template helps managers to monitor the turn around time (TAT) at each stage and also overall average TAT stagewise for opportunities as well as for leads. The dashboard will help the top management to identify the bottlenecks and take necessary steps to enhance the process accordingly. The sales team can improve their efficiency and productivity as they will be able to know how much time they are spending in each stage.

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