Business Unhappy? See What You've Been Missing
Let's face it, gathering requirements is often an exercise in futility. Despite the best intentions of everyone involved, the application that is ultimately delivered often barely resembles the idea the business owner initially tried to express. The cause is simple: traditional means of eliciting and capturing requirements rely on lengthy text-based documents - leaving a lot to the imagination.
Prototype Composer is a completely new way of gathering requirements. Prototype Composer makes it possible to see how an application will look and function before any code is ever written. Instead of endless text documents, Prototype Composer makes it easy for business users and business analysts to collaborate on requirements by building simple, high-fidelity prototypes that simulate a working application.
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Get Business Requirements Right
Ever get sick of discovering half way through a project that what you thought a business user said isn't what they thought they said? You don't have time for that. And with budgets tight, you're under more pressure than ever to keep things moving efficiently.
Imagine if you could enter a Vulcan mind meld before a single line of code is written. Here's how it works. First, you sit down with a business user and talk with them about what they want. Using a simple, Microsoft Office-like application you start "building" the application they are asking for. You drag a form field here, a button there. Before you know it, you've got a working prototype that behaves just like a working application. The business user looks at it, says "That's exactly what I want", and you're done. No more hoping that you understood each other.
Build Usable Applications
One of the most challenging parts of designing an application is understanding how a user will move through the application. Think of this, you're designing a new application for Web-based banking. The application is more than just a few web pages and a database. You've got to design when an email is sent, what happens when a wrong password is entered, and so on.
Prototype Composer makes it simple to model all the activities that go into building a business application. Using a graphical process designer you can model different touch points for different types of users. These activities can be modeled in role-specific swimlanes - ensuring that requirements are gathered with an eye toward the specific needs of different personas.
Rather than static flow charts, business processes within Prototype Composer are associated with user interfaces and application data, making it possible to simulate the experience an end user of the application will have.
Move Seamlessly From Prototype to Coding
Wondering what the catch is? Why are we giving away such a cool application? It's simple, we want to make it as simple (and inexpensive) as possible for you to define new business applications. When it comes time to turn your prototypes into applications, we hope you'll take a look at our other application development products.
For instance, do you manage your development via an Agile methodology? Take a look at Serena Agile On Demand. Want to take requirements from Prototype Composer and trace them through the entire development cycle? There's a seamless publish function from Prototype Composer to Serena Dimensions RM. Need to track all the tasks you've identified in Prototype Composer? Simply publish them from Prototype Composer to a Serena Development Process Management application.