PowerWF Studio 1.0 (Windows)

Overview:

Organizations are increasingly looking to automate administrators' daily tasks. Microsoft responded with two key technologies: Windows PowerShell, which has become the preferred scripting language for Windows administrators, and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), a rich visual environment for modeling and defining business rules. Yet both of these technologies have limitations. PowerShell scripts become increasingly difficult to read and maintain over time. Windows Workflow offers a completely visual style of programming that makes it easy to develop and maintain programs, but lacks PowerShell's rich feature-set and support. PowerWF combines both technologies into a single easy-to-use visual integrated development environment that replaces legacy batch files, scripts and custom application development, enabling you to completely automate your IT Processes without writing a single line of code. PowerWF's IDE provides a central drag-and-drop environment for building, debugging, and deploying your scripts and workflow.It includes a wide array of pre-packaged activities that support these standard industry platforms. Greater automation speeds service delivery and the risk of human error--the primary cause of downtime. It also cuts your costs for maintaining existing systems, leaving more resources for new IT initiatives. Most workflow products require users to develop workflows from scratch. PowerWF Studio has the unique ability to convert existing PowerShell Scripts into fully functional workflows. Users simply import scripts, display them visually, debug them within a visual IDE, and redeploy them to any destination. This makes it easy to modify, extend, and manage scripts to meet your specialized needs.

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