Composer™ is more than just a Web form builder. With Composer, you can build multi-stage dialogs with decisioning support to route the user to different processes based on their input. You can process the form data using any of the robust data operations from the component library. Composer configures your Web application to send an email, store information to a database, forward to a Web service or post to a particular Web page all from within the same graphical drag-and-drop interface found in the LogicBase Server Suite™ product.
Composer™ Professional
Composer™ Professional Edition provides all of the functionality that is needed to put your paper forms on the Web. This includes the basic ability to design forms, and publish the data either to an XML file or to an email account. In addition, Composer Professional Edition adds the capabilities for rule processing (basic business rules), communications (user defined email), SQL database integration for data retrieval and storage and additional controls (data grid editing, HTML editor, double list editor, date picker). There is never a charge for users of the web data capture applications you create.
Composer™ Enterprise
Composer™ Enterprise Edition gives you all the capability of the Professional edition plus features found in the LogicBase: Server Suite™ version of Composer. These include wizard based integration into data sources (SQL, Web service, Excel, Word, InfoPath), advanced rule and communication components, user defined data types, and much more. There is never a charge for users of the web data capture applications you create.
Features of LogicBase: Composer
LogicBase: Composer™ is a tool to enable the rapid development of complex user interactions. Composer specializes in Web-form interactions and features a rich component-based form editor for quickly creating Web forms with robust underlying processing functionality.
Graphical Web-form Editing
With Composer™ you can quickly create an HTML form by dragging components onto a grid and configuring them. Easily pre-populate form components and generate drop down box content by merging data into the form. You set the required fields, tab order and more all from within the Composer user interface without ever needing to write any markup or script.
Class-based Theme Management
Composer empowers you to use the provided theme library or create your theme to apply to your forms. The theme management utility is intuitive to use and allows you to apply CSS styles to HTML elements and create custom classes. Set color schemes, background and border images, font styles, and more.
Drag-and-drop Conversation Flow
With Composer™, you receive more than just graphical form building. Because Composer was designed as part of the business logic management system, LogicBase™, you have the power of graphical drag-and-drop conversation flow to make your forms actually perform business functions on the entered data. Build multi-stage dialogs to steer your customers and staff through complex interactions. Process input data at any stage using the component library's robust data transformation modules. Send an email or text message, write to a file or database, or post to a Web page. With Composer you're not just building forms, you're authoring real Web applications without writing any code.
External Systems Integration
As with the other LogicBase™ products, integrating with external systems is easier with Composer™. Use powerful dynamic data type generators to create components that connect your data to databases and Web services that you then deploy with your application. Interact with these external entities just as you do with other components, by dragging the corresponding LogicBase data components into your model and connecting them to your business logic model.
Business Scenarios
Information Capture (Employment Applications / Vacation Request Forms / 401k change requests / Benefits Sign Up, etc.)
Scenario: What is the ratio of automated data collection processes to manual processes in your organization? Many of the non-automated processes are just not worth the time, money and frustration of using the scarce, expensive resources of your IT department. Your IT department has limited time and people to focus on solving real, business critical issues that affect your entire enterprise. But sometimes, what you need is only a simple form to allow an employee to request annual leave. These needs for simple data capture, which would make your department more productive, languish in the queue of computer requests awaiting time and effort form the IT area. Because the traditional way of building forms is so complicated, your business staff cannot build the simple forms that would make your processes more efficient. Thus, hundreds of small processes in your organization stay trapped back in the 80's. Composer can help! Composer allows business users like you to build information capture web user interfaces without any programming knowledge or "web savvy". Composer's full graphical user interface gives a drag and drop form construction capability for web forms that any business person will feel confident in assembling.
Modules Used: Composer
Call CenterScripting (Sales/Support)
Scenario: Sales and support message consistency. How do you get your new sales associates to say the right thing? How can you ensure they remember the new special offer? Do they often ”forget” to qualify the lead? How do you deal with the information that they capture? Because of the dynamic nature of the conversations involving your sales people, the solution needs to be very dynamic and flexible. The solution also needs to seamlessly interact with your core data sources to display relevant information during the conversation. But, most of all, the system needs to be easily changed to allow tuning of the conversations and data gathering in response to changing business decisions, offers and products. Composer enables non IT personnel to create, change and deploy these scripts easily. This reduces training, provides integrated data capture and ensures consistency across different call center agents.
Modules Used: Composer
Other Uses
Composer is very flexible. For intense user interactions that require heavy design and complex logic processing, then the complete LogicBase suite of business logic management modules are your best choice. But most of your data gathering needs are not that intense. Composer solves 80% of the information capture requirements that are not in the domain of the technology “propeller heads.” Lets face it, your programmers do not want to spend countless hours building basic web forms; they would much rather be solving complex business problems. As a solution for business people to take control of web based information capture, Composer is ideal. |
