In this Newsletter
  • jEyLaBs WELCOMES 2015
  • CONSOLIDATNG K2 DATABASES IS A MUST
  • WHY WE INVESTED IN NATIVES
  • NEW PowerToolz RELEASE - 2.0.0.2

Welcome to the January edition of jEyLaBs News

jEyLaBs welcomes 2015!

We have hit the ground running in 2015. Our team has grown with new hires with expertise in K2, iOS, Android, .NET and PHP. We have been busy with project delivery and some exiting new engagements are kicking off in the coming days. 

Mobile First



Plain and simple, the biggest thing business owners and decision makers are going to need to focus on at the start of the Year is mobile optimization. Australia has the second highest smartphone usage by population density, second only to Singapore. Smart phones are really changing the marketing space for Australian businesses.

jEyLaBs has followed the philosophy of "mobile first" for some time now and because of this, have engaged in many projects with forward thinking businesses, integrating mobile into their current platforms and processes.

Working closely with these businesses, jEyLaBs has been able to assist with bringing an astounding level of value to their clientele and staff. Brand awareness and control has grown, interacting directly with customers has increased dramatically, and staff efficiency has been improved astronomically.

Jumping on a technology bandwagon has never been as important as it is today. Almost every business requires a mobile device interface of some sort. This can come in the form of an optimised website or native mobile app. Contact us to learn more from our experience.


Consolidating K2 Databases is a must
Prior to K2 blackpearl 4.6, multiple databases on the same SQL instance were created during the installation of K2 blackpearl.

With clean installs of 4.6 and later, a single database is created. If previous versions are upgraded to 4.6 or later, the multiple databases are upgraded but not consolidated.

Maintaining a Single consolidated K2 database is much easy.
We strongly recommend our clients to consolidate.

The K2 Database Consolidation Tool is used to consolidate multiple K2 databases into a single database.

Please contact K2 Support in order to receive the correct version of the K2 Database Consolidation Tool for your environment.

More information on the tool can be obtained here on this KB – http://help.k2.com/kb001628
Why we invested in Natives

jEyLaBs made a strategic decision in Feb 2012 to invest in native mobile application development. We built our teams focusing on iOS, Android, Windows and Blackberry. Many people questioned our decision around going native. Investors, Partners, Customers and our team members all had different views around the topics of going html 5 vs native apps. This discussion isn’t over yet :) but, we are more than clear about our decision being right. 
Apple getting bigger by the quarter, their Apple Pay, Apple Watch and other products will have a massive impact. We can easily predict how Apple will affect other players already in the wearable technology, payments, health & fitness and home automation space. This space is all about the combined power of design, device, apps and market share. Apple is making a massive move and they will succeed. Apple and others will need support from the eco system to work with them and the regulators, work against the hackers and security threats.

The innovation and competition will be intense and it will be battle fought fiercely. There will be lot less of fair play and closed platforms will dominate. This is where we see the opportunity yet again for Native apps. Our teams have massive experience across the platform stack. This unfortunately also includes the blackberry and windows space however almost all our resources have been redirected to iOS and Android space for over 18 months now.

jEyLaBs is ideally placed to leverage and innovate on the inventions made by Apple and others. We are bringing more capabilities to the space we play in the enterprise workflow scene with K2 with mobile. We have also opened up more opportunities for Mobile developers in our team recently and we are taking applications now.

If you are still mulling over the decision to go native or not, please take our lead and kick off native app initiatives. You will soon see the returns to justify you investments, just like us.  
New PowerToolz Release



PowerToolz is an automated testing and management tool for K2. Workflow testing can be automated easily by creating or generating test scripts. PowerToolz helps you manage and execute regressions test scripts in bulk any time with a few clicks. It also stores test results automatically and helps visualise them. This saves significant amount of time and money with workflow automation projects.


Product Features



New PowerToolz Features (2.0.0.2)
  • Visual Studio Add In (VS 2010, 2011 and 2013) for PowerToolz testing features
  • Supports all the SmartForm controls under SmartForm testing
  • Generated Scripts for Process Testing
  • User Search : AD or K2/SMO - When the action user is to be selected for a process testing, PowerToolz provides an option to select directly from AD search or K2 SMO
  • Form Authentication has username and password for RunAS user
Upcoming PowerToolz Features (2.0.0.3)
  • Copy required SMO data and methods
  • Smart Form Comparison
  • Process Instances Version migration

See more at www.powertoolz.net.au

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