How to Compare Emakin

How does Emakin compare to solution X, Y, or Z? That’s a very common question being asked all the time! Please examine our document to find the right reply.

Simplicity

Designing an application should be easy and straightforward, and that’s why we put “citizen developers” in the driving seat of Emakin. They do not have to worry about data models, connections, schemas, or data sources. Instead, with a process-minded approach, they start by designing the workflow and the form(s), then match them together.

Of course, Emakin is not only a tool to cover basic needs; instead, it’s designed to offer the right person what is needed at the right time. Like a matryoshka, people can dive deep into it and explore more complex features, allowing them to design advanced end-to-end solutions.

Readability

Emakin represents the flow chart of any application in a simpler and more understandable way than the regular BPMN diagrams. This is a deliberate choice of Emakin in favour of readability.

The main issue with BPMN diagrams is they quickly become very crowded with icons, boxes, and artefacts, making the big picture challenging to understand and thus forcing designers and developers to create auxiliary drawings for illustration purposes when discussing with business users. After some time, keeping the documentation relevant and up to date becomes a burden, falling behind, and ultimately being abandoned.

Emakin provides a single flow chart model that is used both for designing the process and displaying the whole workflow to business users. People can create and maintain applications more easily when they can refine and negotiate the requirements with application owners and business stakeholders on common ground.

Changeability

Change is inevitable. Starting from the earliest stages of the development process and even after going live and collecting information, change is inevitable. A regular system should bear this in mind and provide a solution at its best. Most of the products in the market highlight that it’s easy and quick to design applications; however, they can’t give an adequate answer when it comes to applying changes in the live environment. Emakin’s two unique features solve this problem.

With the Zero Delay feature, development is very fast. The auto-save mechanism, no compilation, and no deployment make the development process really fast.

With the Live Effects feature, people can immediately benefit from updates, even if they are in the middle of an ongoing business process.

No dependencies

Emakin offers complete independence from third-party software or systems. This gives our customers the freedom of choice and flexibility they desire. Nevertheless, Emakin has native integration with popular cloud services, like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.

Holistic approach

When it comes to developing an application, it is more than just managing a single process or designing a workflow and its form. You have to combine multiple processes, integrate them with each other, collaborate on them, upload independent documents, attach emails, listen to mailboxes, set statuses, etc. 

Emakin’s built-in case management feature helps you to overcome this complexity. It’s like a dedicated mini workspace for a specific purpose that you can easily create and immediately start collaborating.

Cloud nativity

In today’s world, being in the cloud is a must for any enterprise solution. We can proudly say that Emakin has been developed with a cloud architecture since 2010 when the initial foundations of Emakin were laid.

Cloud-nativity is quite promising as it enables enterprises to run software anywhere, offering high-productivity solution development, vastly simplified updates, accelerated introduction of new features, and flexible deployment. However, there are many varieties of being a cloud-based solution! Anyone interested in this subject should be careful before choosing and do their research well. Emakin, in its entire purity, presents lots of options when it comes to cloud offerings and support.

Emakin Public Cloud is the default environment for our customers, in which Emakin handles the hosting infrastructure. It is available in multiple regions around the globe and comes with high-availability options. Secondly, Emakin is compatible with all well-known cloud providers: Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Huawei Cloud. Therefore, when our customers have their own cloud environment, it’s possible to provide Emakin in their existing private cloud environments. Lastly, Emakin can also be installed on-premises, making use of the customers’ own server infrastructure.

Deliverability

Simplicity is desirable not only during application development but also for application deployment.

At deployment time, there’s a lot of work that needs to be taken care of, such as workflow diagrams, form definitions, data models, rule definitions, reports, environment settings, etc. Continuous development, change requests, improvements, and bug fixes make the recurring frequency of deployments grow exponentially. Great care must be exercised, and considerable time must be spent in a brittle process.

Fortunately, Emakin provides a solution to this problem and solves it again in its own way. There are no DLL files, no scattered definitions, nor manual configurations when it comes to deployment. Everything is handled in a single deployable artefact. Just copy the file to the target environment and Emakin takes care of everything else. From data table creation to applying changes, all is handled automatically, smoothly, and swiftly by Emakin. If you still want more and even fully automate the deployment cycle, then Emakin’s built-in market infrastructure is our answer to accomplish your request.