We’re in the countdown to the next release of QAT Flow!  With only three weeks left until the expected release date, our team has been working hard to finish up the latest round of features requested by customers.  We’re providing a number of major new features in Release 5 that will make it even more powerful and easier to use.  Of course, our Illustrated User Documentation has also been updated to help you get on track fast!  Here are some of the highlights:

1. Automated Document Generation and Preview – This is a new feature that makes is simple to generate multiple PDF Documents from the data collected by your work flows.  The documents can also be previewed from any step within the workflow and/or directly from the work queue.  (Look for Microsoft Word document support in an upcoming release!)
2. Enhanced Web Queues – We’ve added powerful new search and organization features to the queues.  The new management queue provides the ability to monitor and manage the active work.
3. Design Import / Export – Import and export workflow designs.  This is a great feature that allows us to share and migrate work flow designs.
4. Data Warehouse and Archiving – We’ve included and embedded data warehouse for easy reporting.
5. Email Links – Automatic emails with links to directly open the workflow step.
6. Long Text – This is a new type of parameter for long text entry.
7. Interface Enhancements – We have a new look that is designed to make using the product more intuitive.

Do you have a feature wish list of your own for QAT Flow?  If so, please let us know!  Our product development path is strongly influenced by customer requests.  Add a comment here or send us an email to sales@qat.com.

I’m excited to announce that QAT WebDaptive 2009 was released today! QAT’s successful web integration framework got more than a visual makeover: Supporting our customers with integrating WebDaptive in their unique environments gave us many ideas of how to improve that process. Just a few highlights:

In the Web Framework, you can:

• register background functions to be called in regular intervals
• have main content frame perform automatic housekeeping for you, like resizing the frame to fit the contents and canceling AJAX callbacks in the page scope.
• configure start-up links to launch a specific WebDaptive page with predefined parameters from outside WebDaptive (like from an email link)

WebDaptive 2009 also includes the beta release of our build script for combining and minimizing JavaScript files for a production release to improve performance.

The back end was updated as well: The WebDaptive Session Service now supports categorizing session keys so they can be set, retrieved and deleted together.

So please check out the official release statement and let us know what you think!

Anke