K2 [blackpearl] and workflow

Finally, there’s a WebCast been scheduled within my working/waking hours !  
For those not aware, the devk2.net world headquarters are located in Melbourne, Australia.
Here’s a brief blurb about the forthcoming webcast :
Herman Taljaard, K2 director, will highlight the capability provided by “BlackPearl” to build applications that require workflow – workflow that can be built through [...]

K2 Underground Community Site Coming – June 4

There’s lots of buzz & hype happening around the new K2.NET product (Black Pearl) - including a re-branding and so forth, still using the same “green’ish” colours.
I noticed the following announcement on the K2.NET Forum site :
K2 Underground Community Site Coming June 4
The K2.NET Forum will be moving to a new location and getting a new name [...]

K2 “BlackPearl” Beta 2 – to be released May 25th

Thus far, have only been working with the “Beta 1 Tech Refresh 2″ version of K2.NET Black Pearl. Beta2 includes a number of new and enhanced features – it will be interesting to see how it goes – and get into some more hard-core testing/dev’ing.
With the Beta2 release happening next week, the “public” beta release date [...]

Start a workflow (from non-Microsoft external system)

A project I was working on last year had an interesting requirement relating to K2.NET 2003.  Rather than using Sharepoint as the launcher for a workflow, instead, their main line-of-business system would be commencing workflows, upon submission of a web-based form (request).
This was an Oracle Forms / JAVA based solution – but thanks to the [...]

Collaborative Process Modeling

One every few months, there is an email newsletter sent from K2.NET, with articles, tech-talk, web-casts, events and so on.
To subscribe, simply email to: networker@k2workflow.com with “subscribe” as the subject.
The following is from the “k2 networker” – an article from Anthony Petro.  It describes how business process’es are a collaborative effort – by business stakeholder, [...]

More video clips – Black Pearl (demo)

Following on from this post, there are another THREE video clips, with demo/s of new Black Pearl functionality.
These have been added to the Black Pearl website (flash-player required).
Reporting - creation of a tabular report with browser-based “Workspace”
K2 Object Browser - within Visual Studio 2005
Microsoft Profile - same video as this one (PhotoBucket).

K2 BlackPearl – Extending the Microsoft Application Platform

Found this video on PhotoBucket, with quick overview (2:45) from Jeff Shuey (Global Alliance Director) and Koos Du Preez (CTO) about the company and the new Black Pearl product.
What Black Pearl does, it is a business process automation product, but what it really does is it allows business people to interact with systems essentially, and [...]

SQL Server error when installing Black Pearl (Beta 1 TR2)

Received a comment about problems when installing K2.NET Black Pearl.
I’d had the exact same problem when setting up my VPC.  The issue is – that when attempting to configure the SQL Server databases, a SQL Server authentication error is displayed.
I couldn’t work out what was wrong, as the rest of the installation had been fairly [...]

The next generation K2.NET software to be named K2 ‘BlackPearl’

Anoter story/article about K2.NET Black Pearl.   Have been watching some webcasts about the new functionality & feature-set.  More to follow.
K2 “BlackPearl” evolves the K2.net 2003 platform to meet customer needs for rapidly building and adapting business applications. Building software is too expensive today. It is too complex. It takes far too long.
K2 “BlackPearl” is [...]

Microsoft Introduces Interactive Media Manager (IMM)

Will be interesting to see how K2/NET Black Pearl can interact with IMM (interactive Media Manager)
At the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters conference (NAB2007), Microsoft Corp. today introduced Microsoft Interactive Media Manager, a next-generation digital content management solution that combines digital workflows and media application integration with a collaborative front-end environment. The solution, an extension [...]