Enhanced Automation

FlowCentric Processware enabled our business to add value to our clients, improving their operational processes and ensuring a more controlled, auditable business system

Pros

It provides a more controlled & automated environment for the current demanding workspace most businesses find themselves into.

Cons

Standard data view search functionality can be improved with a more responsive auto-find searching functionality. However, this can be achieved through customisation.

I have used Flowcentric since 2011. The product radically changed the way we did business.

The business achieved significant savings through Flowcentric. By locking in the DOA and business rules, it has significantly reduced the collusion with internal resources and suppliers. The transparency created through Flowcentric ensure that the bid process was free and fair. Flowcentric has also enabled the business to streamline its supply chain. Prior to Flowcentric, the supply chain department consisted of 65 team members. Within 2 years of implementing Flowcentric, the number of resources reduced to less than half that number. Prior to Flowcentric, there was no visibility of how contracts were run and managed. Flowcentric Contract Life Cycle Management has changed this. Flowcentric Contract Life Cycle Management has enabled significant savings, efficiency and compliance. The business has a rotation system and Flowcentric's vacation rules has enabled continuity without disruption.

Pros

Quick implementation, ease of use, value for money (fraction of what it will cost to change an ERP system), flexibility, efficient and effective. There's so much one can do with Flowcentric that requires alot of effort to do on an ERP system. Flowcentric integrates with any ERP system. Response times are quick and this adds to the user experience. Flowcentric can be used to automate almost every manual transaction. It's audit function is remarkable. Automated notifications and escalations ensures no slippage. The user interface is simple and effective. Very little training is required from inception. The vacation rules function is very useful for businesses with a rotation system. Flowcentric enables one to lock in business rules and the Delegation of Authority (DOA) to ensure compliance. Flowcentric enable the user to track pending tasks at any given point in time.

Cons

The pending tasks can be improved by grouping the tasks in process groups. Users currently have to filter through in order to get to the task that requires immediate action.

All round it's been a good experience.

Single point of entry for all users, for all processes, irrespective of the end system being affected. Reduction of ERP and 3rd party licensing costs. Despite facing a lot of challenges in rolling out to different instances across Africa, we still managed to do it cheaper than our peers in other Zones.

Pros

The flexibility to convert just about any business process into the software. Integration into 3rd party software is easy and straight forward. Personalized relationship provided to us has been incredibly valuable.

Cons

No managed code. This is a big problem for us. Testing our releases has been manual, very time consuming and as a result of this, expensive. GUI and workflow are one and the same. Changing the workflow, which happens quite often, can be cumbersome and tedious to implement "quickly". Because of the sheer size of our operations, rolling out changes (big or small) has been slow at best. Software is absolutely perfect for a small to medium sized business. In our environment though, as a massive enterprise, the software has posed a number of problems. This specifically relates to the way in which we chose to use and implement it. The complexity of some of our processes challenged the software but by far the biggest problem has been the ability to handle large amounts of data on screen. Another example of this is, we have a couple thousand role groups (because of how we needed to manage SOD and this has caused the Process Suite to fail. We needed to build a front end screen to manage this as the process suite does not handle the volume well.

We used to have lots of errors and users were resisting to use it but now we are less errors

It transformed the way we do our work and we understand our processes better now. New users adopt it easily and anyone can use it with ease. Information is easily available, there is transparency in our activities and people can account for late delivery of tasks. People can work from multiple locations hence we saved a lot of time and money on travelling. RouteTo users keep the work going in the absence of primary users. We can track performance based on date & time the activity moves from one approver to another and therefore identify bottlenecks. It bridged the barriers across departments, as well as up and down the organogram hence efficiency. Therefore, we are able to achieve targets that were never met from the beginning of the project.

Pros

You can configure almost any process with ease, and it is very easy to use. It keeps track of your activity history and if you like, you can keep certain fields visible to all or certain subsequent activities. You can also show certain users what they need to see only.

Cons

The flow is rigid in the sense that you cannot assign an activity to someone else, the process follows the predefined steps only. It would be helpful to send the process to any other user (who may not be part of the approvers in the workflow) to comment and return it to you.

Anything is Possible

I love the product. I use it everyday, and everyday we find new and exciting ways to make processes better.

Pros

Everything...from its ease of use to the flexibility the software gives you in implementing processes. Simple processes are really simple and quick to implement while the software still gives you the ability to implement, and streamline, really complex processes making it easy to automate any business process throughout the organisation.

Cons

There is not much to say here...if I had to mention something it would be that the system is not available offline processing, however, it seems that has been addressed in the latest version and tasks can now be processed offline with the use of the API.

Excellent International Partner

FlowCentric has been a Global Patner for more that years and in this time they have grown the product from strength to strength whilst continuously paying attention to what the market needs. Collaboration between our two companies has been excellent with a passionate team driving their product forward.

Pros

Processware allows us to efficiently digitize the processes that are business critical to our clients, deploy and manage them from anywhere in the world without worrying about the system being offline during changes. Processware has allowed us to firmly integrate the various data flows inherent in our enterprise system.

Cons

There is a slight learning curve for the developers using the Processware Process Suite, but from the front-end the users has a seamless and well thought out UI.

Transformation of business

As a regulator, which is membership based, it was possible to keep track of all steps regarding a specific member. The whole organisation therefore work from one database which also link to the financial system. All financial transaction s regarding the members are getting information from the same database, that ensure accuracy.

Pros

After it was successfully implemented, it could be change for any business process change. All new business process could be added and integrated. It is an South Africa product and assistance is always available.

Cons

The implementation is expensive. The maintenance is possible but expensive.

Backbone for all Eldir Products

We created a focused software solution for the Security Industry that is unique. Processware is the key to our solution, and the experience was top class.

Pros

The software forms the backbone of all Eldir products. The workflow and reports are crucial for Eldir to provide a professional service to our clients. Integration with other service providers to the Security Industry is easy and seamless.

Cons

None, Processware was the preferred product

Flowcentric the best workflow in supply chain

the ERP did not have robust workflows so things like ordering process was a huge challenge it was difficult to implement supply chain controls with the ERP

Pros

The robustness of its workflows, easy intergration with almost all DBMS platforms

Cons

for me the system is perfect cant find any issues for now. may be you just need to increase your footprint in africa have realised not many organization arround africa knows it.

Flowcentric Processware

Pros

The software enables us to do away manual documents and to provide evidence that actions were performed. There is ease of access to information. You can log in from various sites to access the information.

Cons

System requires a lot of customization and this is extremely costly. The license costs are also expensive.

Excellent Processware / Business Automation

We use it for project file management, internal payment requisition, cash flows, reporting to dashboard software and drawing data from ALL our other software systems such as design, accounting and apps. Integration with G-Suite is also possible. We are continually developing processes which makes Flowcentric very scalable as we develop new avenues.

Pros

This is a very good process flow and business automation software and will certainly assist in ensuring with compliance to internal processes, business rules and even legislative requirements.

Cons

It is not a plug an play system. There is a significant amount of customisation required. Implementation is expensive and if the BA does not understand your business intimately, do not waste your time. In our scenario implementation was problematic and expensive. However we employed a fulltime IT programmer, taught him our business and processes and we have developed an excellent system. . Thus have a full time employee doing development or have a big budget. Not sure if an app has been developed yet but the lack of this functionality does hamper our "on the road" employees. We use a third party app which integrates well

Integral part of our enterprise product

Pros

FlowCentric Processware made it easy to build custom business processes which are actionable, traceable and auditable. This ensures end to end insight into the status of a process, where the current responsibility lies and what the reporting structure is. FlowCentric Processware is an integral part of our enterprise mining software platform.

Cons

Processes can be developed using the FlowCentric Process Suite application and it is a steep learning curve at the beginning to get to know the full suite

Flowcentric Processware

Thank you, Working with Flowcentric Processware have been an amazing. So long I have had limitations in 2016 when attaching a file, basically I am using BCP file bulk upload in my SQL and for some reason it does not allow me to use the file Attach which is convenient and easy for user's. Rather it only allows me to use simple Text box which will only allow the user to input the file path. This to me seems so unfair to the clients and I had been trying to explore how to do it better. Thank you

Pros

Easy to use Cheap to train the user's and consultants Comes at the fraction of a cost workflows Ability too integrate to many Applications

Cons

So i have not discovered anything i dont like about the product

FlowCentric Review

With FlowCentric processes, manual work can be automated which results in a paperless environment. Less paper = Less cost! It also makes response time quicker as managers are able to approve processes without having to be in the office as opposed to physically signing a form. Quicker response time = Improved customer service

Pros

Ease of Use Development of processes are not complicated Dashboard Tracking functionality User friendly - Not much training needed for users to utilize the processes

Cons

There are no debugging features which makes it difficult to resolve issues while developing (Processware 2013)