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Announcement: Volt MX Unleashes Citizen Development

2. Mai 2023 Posted by Andrew Manby

I’m excited to announce that we’re expanding Volt MX, our multiexperience low-code platform, with proven citizen development capabilities. Already recognized by leading analysts for its outstanding low-code support for professional developers, Volt MX is now enabling citizen developers to build apps in minutes alongside IT on a single governed platform.

Unified Development Platform

Volt MX is the industry’s first platform to provide persona-specific, high-fidelity developer experiences – for both no-code and low-code – on a unified development platform with transparent pricing and no hidden costs.

Since business users are experts in their domain, we believe they should be equipped with their own, persona-specific tools to build their own solutions that solve business challenges.

Most solutions in the market today cater exclusively to either the citizen or the professional developer, resulting in poor adoption by citizen developers, and disjointed collaboration leading to additional cost and complexity for IT organizations to maintain.

Without introducing shadow IT, Volt MX makes it possible to:

  • Enable any organization to tackle their application development backlog and solve business problems at the speed their business demands.
  • Empower citizen developers with confidence, without compromising IT standards and best practices.
  • Upscale and enhance citizen-developed apps in minutes without rewrites.

What existing Volt MX customers can expect:

Starting today, Volt MX B2E customers and Volt MX Go customers with active subscriptions will see the HCL Leap download package available in the HCL Software License and Download Portal. Without delay, you’ll be able to deploy HCL Leap and allow citizen developers to start building apps. The Volt MX platform components now include:

  • Leap: IDE for citizen developers of all skillsets to create situational apps in a safe, governed environment using predefined IT resources in Volt Foundry.
  • Volt Iris: IDE for professional developers to create new applications and upscaling existing Leap apps.
  • Volt Foundry: Environment for professional developers to manage backend integration and workflow services for both professional and citizen development.

To learn more about the new Leap entitlement, please click here. Other Volt MX customers, including B2C customers interested in using Leap for external audiences, should contact their HCL sales representative here or business partner.

Get started with Volt MX today

Want to know more? Check out the following links:

  • Read more about the press announcement here
  • Learn more about Volt MX here
  • Contact sales here
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How to Continue Working from Anywhere — and Grow Your Business

28. April 2023 Posted by Dan Allen

How to Continue Working from Anywhere — and Grow Your Business

Employees want the ability to work from anywhere — their mobile phone, their kitchen table, or the company’s physical office. Flexibility is now key for hiring and retaining talent.

In a 2022 survey of currently employed people, FlexJobs found that more than half (57%) said they would leave their jobs if they don’t get remote work options. This means, your organization depends on your employees being able to access the apps they require to do their jobs from wherever they like.

Providing this ability, however, may feel challenging. IT departments’ to-do lists are overflowing with tasks and projects. At the same time, many organizations are facing budget cuts and finding the time to research new tools simply doesn’t exist.

There’s an easy answer to this conundrum. Companies are increasingly discovering that there’s a tool that solves many of these challenges — HCL Domino Nomad.

Make everyone an app developer

With the recent upgrade to v12, HCL Domino modernized its ecosystem and created a powerful tool that helps your organization adapt to today’s workforce needs: Your employees need quick access to their apps to manage projects, serve clients, and help your business grow.

In addition to having the ability to access current apps, employees require new apps that digitize previously manual processes, make it possible to work from anywhere, and save time. Domino helps you to make your existing apps web- and mobile-ready with just a few clicks through a desktop, tablet, mobile phone, or web browser. You can quickly deliver the apps to Apple iPhone and iPad, Android tablets, and Chrome OS.

Because the latest Domino version also can help create web apps, employees can access their apps from any web browser. Instead of waiting weeks for the tools they need, your team has the apps they need in minutes.

As employees see the productivity gains and improved flexibility of mobile apps, it’s likely that you will quickly see requests for new apps to streamline your organizational processes and tasks.

Domino makes it easy for even non-developers to create new apps in 70% less time. Because technical skills aren’t needed, employees can take control of their own processes and feel empowered to make improvements in their work.

Gain efficiency with no required client upgrades

Previously, an installation of Domino Notes Client was required to create apps and databases. The newest version of Domino allows you to run Notes applications in a standard browser — or even on a mobile phone.

With the new version, your IT staff can reduce their management responsibilities, as there’s no longer a need to upgrade clients or provide desktop support.

Because the new version runs clientless, IT teams can significantly reduce the time and resources spent managing applications. Fewer help tickets mean your IT team can focus on digital transformation and other customer-facing projects.

Provide flexibility for your workforce

Domino takes the work-from-anywhere concept to a totally new level.

The platform works in the offline mode when there’s no internet or an unreliable connection, so your employees can continue to work even on an oil drilling rig or a cruise ship. Once they get to a location that has a network connection, they can upload their work and synchronize the changes.

Your team can also tailor their experience based on their preferences and needs, such as building apps that access their device’s camera, files, location, and native mobile gestures. You can also restyle older apps to update the interface to make it easier to use or give it a more modern appearance. To save even more time, you can update multiple apps at the same time.

Many organizations mistakenly assume they need multiple solutions — an ERP system, a CRM, and an HR system. With HCL Domino, you can use your existing tool to create situation apps and workflows that help you solve your biggest business challenges. Learn more about Nomad and the business-forward capabilities of the latest version of HCL Domino.

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Why Low Code is Key to Digital Transformation

21. April 2023 Posted by Richard Jefts

Why Low Code is Key to Digital Transformation

Low code is revolutionizing the way organizations do business. We all hear, every day, how important speed is or how we need to be moving faster. Low code empowers companies to develop and deploy innovative solutions quickly and efficiently. This translates to faster time-to-market, improved agility, and increased customer satisfaction. Moreover, low-code platforms help bridge the gap between IT and business teams, fostering collaboration and streamlining workflows. This translates to more efficient and effective solutions that align much more closely with business objectives. We see this today with citizen applications being built by anyone at the organization first, after which IT can use what’s been started to build enterprise-grade, low-code applications.

Low-code platforms can be used to develop a wide range of solutions, from simple mobile apps to complex enterprise applications. They offer a range of benefits, including faster development times, reduced costs, improved collaboration, and more efficient workflows. It’s no wonder that they’ve become an increasingly popular choice for businesses looking to accelerate their digital transformation efforts.

According to Gartner, by 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65% of application development activity. In a survey conducted by Forrester, 23% of respondents said they have already implemented low-code platforms, while another 22% said they plan to do so in the next 12 months. The same Forrester survey found that organizations that use low-code platforms report a sixfold increase in speed of application development. This demonstrates the growing importance of low-code platforms in driving digital transformation across industries. I want to emphasize that 2024 is literally right around the corner.

Low-code platforms enable developers to build applications using a visual drag-and-drop interface, reducing the need for coding expertise and speeding up development times. By eliminating these complexities, low-code platforms empower developers and business users alike to create digital solutions without being hindered by technical limitations.

One of the key advantages of low-code platforms is their ability to improve agility and flexibility in software development. With traditional software development methods, updating a project requires significant effort and time: developers must modify the code, test the changes, and then deploy the updated software. In contrast, low-code platforms make it easier to adapt to changing requirements by enabling users to make changes to applications quickly and efficiently.

In addition to their speed and flexibility, low-code platforms can also help reduce costs by reducing the need for specialized developers and IT personnel. Because low-code platforms don’t require the specialized expertise that traditional software development demands, enterprises can draw on a wider pool of talent to create digital solutions. This can lead to significant cost savings, particularly for smaller businesses or organizations with limited IT resources. It also frees up the best of your IT talent to focus on higher-value initiatives.

Low-code platforms are not without challenges. As with any new technology, there may be concerns around security and data protection, particularly for enterprises that routinely handle sensitive data. It’s important for organizations to carefully evaluate the security and compliance capabilities of low-code platforms before adopting them. You need to work with proven vendors that have rock-solid solutions.

At HCLSoftware, we’re committed to empowering businesses by providing the tools they need to thrive in today’s competitive market. Our low-code platform offers a powerful yet user-friendly — and secure — environment enabling businesses to develop and deploy solutions quickly and efficiently, without the need for specialized coding skills. By leveraging our low-code platform, businesses can focus on delivering value to their customers, driving innovation, and achieving their digital transformation goals. All with speed!!

Our application development platforms provide more than 10 million applications to enterprises globally to keep their businesses running.

LEARN MORE ABOUT VOLT MX, OUR MULTIEXPERIENCE LOW-CODE PLATFORM

LEARN MORE ABOUT DOMINO, NOW WITH NO CODE, LOW CODE AND PRO CODE CAPABILITIES

LEARN MORE ABOUT DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

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Registration for Volt MX Go Early Access Program Is Now Open

17. März 2023 Posted by Adam Gartenberg

We are pleased to share that we are now accepting registrations for the upcoming Volt MX Go early access program. If you are a current or prospective Volt MX Go customer or Business Partner and are interested in testing and providing feedback on the upcoming release, please fill in the registration form here. 

The program will provide a preview of the features that will be included in the July 2023 Volt MX Go release, and our goal is to be able to incorporate feedback on features, design, and usability prior to the release. We are looking for participants who have a Domino 12.0.2 development environment available and can commit to deploying and testing the Volt MX Go early access code as soon as it is available in mid-April so that we have time to make any necessary updates prior to July. 

The Volt MX Go early access release will enable you to: 

  • Connect Volt Foundry to your Domino applications with a dedicated Domino Adapter, guided by a fast, simple first-touch experience 
  • Modernize or create new multiexperience applications in Volt Iris against your Domino back-end data and applications 
  • Get a head start on your Volt MX Go applications by importing existing Domino Views, Forms and Fields into Volt Foundry 
  • Greatly expand who can code Domino applications through VoltFormula, allowing you to run @Formula and OpenFormula code without requiring a full rewrite 

 The early access program is feature-driven and iterative, with new iterations and code drops being made available as soon as they are declared ready for testing by our development team. New code drops can be provided in just a few weeks after the previous one, on short notice. 

How to Participate
To apply to participate in the program, fill in the registration form here.  

We will be doing a limited, phased rollout of the program to make sure we can properly accommodate feedback and assist participants. We will begin notifying those who have been accepted into the program in mid-April and will provide access to the code, documentation and the feedback forum at that time.  

We will be bringing additional participants on board on a regular basis from that point onward, so please be on the lookout for an acceptance email as we ramp up the program. Our goal is to be able to include as many participants as possible. 

We are excited about the upcoming Volt MX Go release and encouraged by all the interest we are seeing and are looking forward to hearing your feedback and suggestions! 

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Enterprise Leaders Deliver Value in the Digital+ Economy by Transforming Experiences

24. Februar 2023 Posted by Richard Jefts

Enterprise Leaders Deliver Value in the Digital

Digital Transformation isn’t just making sure your business, your apps, or your CX are available online. It means creating technology and processes for customers, partners, and employees that embody their potential, enable their vision, meet their needs, and achieve their goals. Digital transformation is the process of using digital technologies to transform business processes and customer experiences to meet the evolving needs and opportunities of the digital age. Beyond the obvious efficiencies introduced by digitizing data, interactions, and business processes, digital transformation offers the prospect of reimagining and reinventing business at a fundamental level — from sales and marketing paradigms to success metrics, from business models to customer engagement. As a result, we are seeing a huge shift of companies becoming “digital first” and taking a “digital first” approach.

In fact, digital transformation begins and ends with customers and employees. Customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) are at the heart of this transformation — whether those users are consumers or other clients external to the business, employees working in a hybrid model, or other internal stakeholders. To a great extent, this focus on CX and EX is driven by our changing expectations. Users of technology today expect personalized, intuitive, seamless experiences across all touchpoints — and companies that fail to deliver on these expectations risk losing out to competitors. Customer-centricity is therefore an indispensable consideration as companies embark on their digital transformation journey and think about how they can improve the engagement, enablement and empowerment of their employees to be connected and more effective than ever.

For all these reasons, digital transformation has become a top priority for businesses of all types and sizes — and companies are investing heavily in digital solutions to improve efficiency, enhance the customer experience, and gain a competitive edge. This elevation of digital transformation among business decision makers, in turn, has brought greater attention to specific solutions and opportunities to enhance business outcomes, leverage data and analytics, incorporate emerging technologies, and systematically and seamlessly address the always-evolving global security and compliance requirements.

Composable solutions that combine app development and automation, CX, secure collaboration, digital solutions, and emerging tech can enable businesses to develop holistic, customer-centric solutions that meet their needs and drive growth and allow them to differentiate themselves from their competitors. By focusing on the user, leveraging low-code platforms where appropriate, and prioritizing these key factors, enterprise leaders can deliver value to their customers in the digital age and achieve success in digital transformation.

Low-code platforms empower businesses to accelerate the development and deployment of new solutions while reducing costs and minimizing the need for specialized coding skills. By leveraging pre-built components and templates, businesses can streamline development and focus on delivering value to their customers faster than ever.

How HCLSoftware is powering digital transformation

In the past year, we touched over 5,000 companies with our e-commerce and CX solutions and helped their businesses grow more than US$200 billion in annual sales transactions. Our marketing automation platform reaches one-third of the earth’s population, and we power over 1 billion user experiences — daily. Our application development platforms provide more than 10 million applications to enterprises globally to keep their businesses running.

To succeed in the digital age, enterprise leaders must embrace a holistic approach to digital transformation. This means starting with a clear understanding of their customers’ needs and priorities, developing solutions that prioritize CX and leverage low-code platforms where appropriate, and continuously iterating and improving their solutions based on customer feedback and changing market conditions.

It also means investing in the right talent, processes, and technologies to drive innovation and growth. This may include hiring data scientists and analysts to help make sense of customer data, adopting emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate and optimize processes, and partnering with trusted vendors like HCLSoftware to ensure the security and compliance of digital solutions.

Digital transformation is not just a buzzword – indeed, the pandemic brought home to us all how critical it is for businesses of all sizes and in all industries. By focusing on your customers, employees and other users — while leveraging low-code platforms where appropriate, and prioritizing business outcomes, data and analytics, emerging technologies, and security and compliance — enterprise leaders can drive growth and innovation in their organizations and deliver value to their customers in the digital age.

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The Future of App Development: Volt MX v9.5 Release

16. Januar 2023 Posted by Andrew Manby

Tomorrow, HCL Software will be releasing our two-part webinar covering the latest release of Volt MX. You can still pre-register here. There’s something for everyone in our development community in the new v9.5 release.

Get an intro to the powerful capabilities of our platform, or dive right into the latest features and demos. Choose your adventure with our two-part webinar that you can access anytime.

If you’re unfamiliar with Volt MX, it is an industry-leading multiexperience low code platform. We’ve helped organizations across industries build app solutions that solve customer and citizen engagement and employee experience challenges. Some examples include:

  • Powering citizen experience for over 2 million residents of a middle eastern country
  • Helping a top insurance company develop an app to support more than 3,000 agents
  • Partnering with a global consumer goods company to localize their app across 30 countries

Our success stories consistently show how Volt MX helps companies meet their customers where they live digitally and reduce complexity and time to deliver solutions. Volt MX v9.5 delivers the following capabilities.

Super and micro app development: The most notable feature of the new v9.5 release is the support for super and micro app development. Super apps are built as an ecosystem of micro apps that cover a range of uses. Through super apps, businesses create more value and “stickiness” for their end users by providing personalized, seamless, and engaging experiences — all in one, connected digital journey. IT teams also benefit from better use of development resources, less interdependency, and ease of maintenance of mini apps for themselves and working with third parties. HCL is the largest MX Low-code platform vendor to add support super app development.

>> Read our detailed blog post about why super apps matter to your business here.

Automate complex processes: Enhancements to Volt MX workflows enable users to build and automate complex processes easily and visually and support various complex use cases, such as parallel workflows, without constraints. Total workflow automation is supported without needing other business process software, delivering significant time savings for end users and development teams while reducing cost and complexity.

automate complex processes

Let’s see this in a real-world scenario. With Volt MX, a streamlined airline maintenance workflow can use parallel workflows to:

  • trigger multiple actions (i.e., send a notification and assign a task when a report is received)
  • assign tasks to multiple owners (both a janitor and plumber are notified)
  • close a report when all tasks in the parallel sections are complete

Fast and error-free deployment. Volt MX eliminates the need for manual app testing by using built-in automated test processes directly within the developer experience. Begin running automated tests at the start of the app lifecycle rather than at later stages of development. Developer benefits include:

  • Higher quality code, ensuring the best user experience for end users
  • Time and cost savings during the QA and testing process
  • Easier combination into CI/CD processes, preventing bad code from merging into the main code

Increase collaboration between development teams and business units. The Volt MX App Viewer allows development teams to generate previews of apps on mobile and tablet devices and collect feedback from business stakeholders before publishing. This results in faster prototyping, iterations, and deployment, eliminating the need to re-publish through app stores.

Developer teams can generate a code for anyone in the organization (e.g., business users, QA team) to review the app in the Viewer. Team members can leave comments within the app, which developer teams can view directly on Volt Iris IDE.

the future of app development

Additional release features and enhancements:

  • Containers: New deployment options include Kubernetes and Docker containers in AWS, Azure, GCP, and Red Hat OpenShift. Unlike our competitors, HCL offers you the freedom to choose the deployment that meets your needs for data privacy and security.
  • Accessibility support: Widget enhancements to support WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) compliance for Volt MX apps.
  • App rebranding: Enhancements to dynamically change the look of the app, including font and color updates
  • Home screen widgets: Support to add widgets to iOS home screen part of iOS 16
  • Support on the latest hardware and operating system releases:
    • Mobile: iOS 16 and Android 13
    • Windows: Volt Iris is supported on Windows 11
    • Apple: Support for Apple Monterey OS and M Series Macs

Want to learn more about this release?

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HCL Domino Admins: Deploy HCL Nomad v1.0.6 Update Today!

9. Januar 2023 Posted by Thomas Hampel

Browser Updates Necessitate a New Domino Nomad Release

Web browser updates happen often, typically to enable new features, but more importantly, to patch ongoing security vulnerabilities. For instance, Google Chrome’s latest release addresses 37 known security issues. While new browser releases are necessary, these releases can sometimes impact our product performance unexpectedly.

As an example, new browser versions recently released by Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge broke Nomad for their respective web browsers. In less than a week, our development team fixed, successfully tested, and released Nomad v1.0.6 to address these issues. You can read more about the problem resolution in this article.

What else is included in Nomad v1.0.6?

Read all about it in the What’s New, but some key things to highlight:

  • The Nomad Server is now available for Domino v12.0.2, pre-bundled with the Nomad for Web v1.0.6 client. The Nomad server is a simple add-on, installed on your Domino server, allowing Nomad to access your Domino applications.
  • The new Restyle feature, included in Domino v12.0.2, lets you easily modernize the look and feel of your Domino applications, and now Nomad supports Restyle for Navigators and Launch options too.

Use your Domino apps to work anywhere

By now, we hope you and your Notes and Domino application users are running HCL Nomad in a browser, tablet, or mobile device. All those sleek applications, developed by you over the years to increase business efficiency, can now be run unchanged in a web browser, tablet, or mobile device without the full Notes client. Take your Domino apps with you, be more efficient on the go, and work from anywhere.

Can Domino do something better or different for you?

Don’t forget — we value your input! Please do not hesitate to share your ideas in Aha! Ideas portal for improving Nomad or Restyle … or tell us what to focus on next. You can also search for ideas and upvote them to confirm it is a promising idea. We look forward to hearing from you.

Start using Nomad today!

Simply download Nomad for web 1.0.6 from the HCLSoftware license and downloads portal and get going today. Or, if you do not have the admin rights or skills yet, try our app in the HCL Sandbox and play around with it. You can create a new app from your template and make sure it works in Nomad. You can also try out our app Restyle capability to see how your app looks in those new clothes. Go on! We know you are dying to try it.

Upgrade your Nomad experience now with our latest release and experience all the benefits Nomad has to offer. Want to learn more about Nomad capabilities? Click here for more info.

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