Posts Tagged: ‘app dev’

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! 

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.