Logic: The platform (before the Logician of ECM. Business platform)

"Logic: The platform" (before the Logician of ECM. The business platform) — a single platform of storage and use of digital content for the organizations of any scale.

The product is based on ECM- platforms IBM and Alfresco, complementing them with a set of business services which solve standard problems of the user and considerably expand possibilities of the platform from vendor.

"Logic: The platform" accelerates further creation of an ecosystem of management of documents of different types: financial, technical, organizational, legal, marketing and others.

2020: Representation of ready configurations on work with documents

Business Logic, developer of solutions for management of corporate content, continues to develop own product "Logic: The PLATFORM" on to Alfresco/Infoturnover WSWS base (enters the Unified register of the Russian programs for Computer and DB Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications Russia). The company provided for it ready configurations on work with documents in different data domains: construction, personnel, finance and in operation of technical objects. Business Logic reported about it on June 22, 2020.

Configurations contain sets of models and forms of standard documents which allow in a short space of time to perform tuning of documents in a system, and the available designer — make changes to them according to requirements of the customer. All this is considerable accelerates project implementation on creation of ECM solutions for listed data domains and office-works:

• construction documents. Allows to implement electronic document management (with ensuring archive storage) on design and designer's service of construction, to work with allowing, initial and allowing documentation, technical reports based on engineering researches, calculations of constructive and technological solutions, the sketch projects and many other;
• personnel documents. Allows to automate office-work and to provide operational and long-term storage of documentation on personnel: employment contracts (with a possibility of confirmation of signing in a system after vising by the worker of the paper original), job descriptions, requests for selection, the file of the candidate, different statements (with a possibility of sending the document for approval), orders, etc.;
• finance documents. The configuration is intended for processing and storage of the electronic documents connected with financial activities of the organization: agreements and accounting supporting documents;
• technical documents. Storage of electronic documents on the operated subjects to production and non-productive appointment, drawings, sets of project technical documentation and many other things.

Implementation speed — an important indicator for the systems of enterprise-level. The quicker the customer will be able to use a product, the total cost of ownership to them is lower, the quicker it is possible to solve the tasks set for business. For example, to provide to employees remote access to archives of the organization that is especially relevant in the period of a pandemic — Georgy Podbutsky, the CEO of Business Logic comments.

2019

"Logic: Platform" 2.8

On December 10, 2019 the company "Business Logic" announced release of the next release of products of own development based on Alfresco/Infoturnover WSWS. In version 2.8 of users expects the improved interface, expansion of functionality on work with electronic signature and also increase in flexibility of attributive search. Release 2.8 added functionality of two basic products of Business Logic company on Alfresco/Infoturnover WSWS at once: "Logic: PLATFORM" and "Logic: EDMS".

As noted also in Business Logic company, processing of the interface "Logic became the most noticeable change: Platform:

• the appearance of a workplace of the user, cards of documents and dialog boxes is changed;
• the ability to manage by quantity of the elements displayed on the page in the automated workplace is added;
• the feature for setup of the general background of a system, own icons for sections and the automated workplace nodes is added;
• there was a setup of information blocks, specific to a certain document type, in the form of the independent section of a card of the document with a possibility of display of such section both on left, and on the right panel of a card;
• on a card of the document the dashboard for display of the personalized notifications hints is added. Setup of structure and the text of hints is available to the applied administrator;
• the main menu is postponed for the side revealing bar that allowed to increase the used page space is useful;
• and many other things.

Thanks to processing, the updated interface, according to the developer, became more modern and it is more convenient, possibilities of his individual preference without involvement of developers extended.

Among significant changes in "the Logician: The PLATFORM", appeared with release 2.8, developers noted optimization and expansion of mechanisms of work with the electronic signature: for example, support of the electronic signature with certificates, the corresponding GOST 2001, GOST 2012 with the hashing algorithm of 256 bits and GOST 2012 with the hashing algorithm of 512 bits is implemented.

According to the statement of the developer, product "Logic:" also expanded with EDMS the opportunities. For example, the flexibility of attributive document retrieval is increased: the feature for the choice from a set of additional search options by date, text and numerical boxes is added. These changes increase efficiency of search of the necessary documents in big base.

"Permanent development of key products is an important part of strategy of Business Logic. In many respects it is implemented through improvement of our platform — base for creation of ECM solutions. It allows once, without duplicating, to implement functionality which are inherited by all products of the company. Changes in upgraded versions of products reflect the needs of the market for solutions for legally significant e-document flow and digital transformation", 'Kirill Sokolov, the head of development center of products of Business Logic noted'

Release "Logic: Platform" 2.6

On February 19, 2019 the Business Logic company released release 2.6 for products "Logic: PLATFORM" and "Logic: EDMS" on the Alfresco/Infoturnover WSWS platform. The release included 53 improvements initiated by group of development of the direction and wishes of clients.

Among the main changes mentioned by the developer:

• the feature for appointment of curators of divisions — employees who, without being heads of department on organizational and regular structure, have rights and powers inherent in the head is added;
• the feature for highlighting of documents in a workplace of the user is added;
• opportunities for work with electronic signatures, including loading of the document sent from the outside complete with the EDS, unloading of the document from a system together with the EDS, etc. are expanded;
• functions on management of tags are added: arrangement and editing, selection on a tag, filters;
• the configured opportunity to block editing a card by several users at the same time is implemented;
• the ability to manage is added by roles to which the user, directly from his card is appointed;
• a number of optimization for performance improvement and stability during the work under a high load in the mode of a failover cluster is entered;
• opportunities for the translation of a system into other languages are expanded.

According to information for February, 2019, products of Business Logic are registered in the Register of domestic software and can be used within import substitution policy in the state organizations.

2018: "Logic: Platform. Description

"Logic: The platform" is the Russian product which can be implemented on the proprietary and free software, depending on preferences of the customer. Solutions based on a product are implemented using a broad set of technologies: Linux, Windows, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, Alfresco, FileNet, MSVSphere, MyOffice, Abbyy and others.

For October, 2018 the solution has the following features:

• Automation of the majority of standard processes of the movement of documents.
• A ready set of basic elements with a possibility of fast setup or deep customization.
• An opportunity to gradually develop an ecosystem of management of digital content on the uniform ECM platform.
• Wide choice of the preconfigured products of the line of Logician for further digital transformation of the enterprise of the customer.
• Existence of the described API and openness to integration with the systems of other classes; a uniform point of integration with an IT landscape of the enterprise.

The platform is optimal for the large commercial, state organizations and holdings which need the solution on content management in the mode "here and now" which does not have at the same time restrictions for further development of an ecosystem.

The tasks solved by the platform:

• Acceleration of business processes due to paperless internal document flow.
• Quality improvement of work of divisions, including deleted, using consolidation of corporate content.
• Secure access to content and actions within documentary processes via the single interface.
• Control of performing discipline of staff of the company.
• Verification of the made management and operational decisions by the electronic signature.
• Organization of operational and long-term document storage.
• Reducing costs for implementation of new subsystems due to reuse of the available ECM services.

Functionality of components "Logic: Platforms":

• Scanning of documents
• Management of loading of documents
• Magazines of document registration
• Management of documents
• Viewing investments in the system interface
• Electronic signature
• Connection of the online editor of office documents, for example, Office 365
• Machine of statuses + business processes: the superstructure over the business process management engine defining lifecycle of the document
• Task management
• Management of acquaintance
• Delegation
• Reference books
• Organizational and regular structure
• Work calendar
• Management of meetings
• Notifications and subscriptions to events
• Management of archive processes
• Document retrieval
• Approval of documents
• Comparison of documents on attributes and contents
• Printed forms
• Barcoding
• Mass transactions
• System of creation of reports
• Exchange of documents
• Management of the automated jobs

2013

A set of the business services accelerating development of functionality on management of documents

On October 14, 2013 the Business Logic company announced an exit of upgraded version of the solution of corporate content management "Logic of ECM. Business platform".

According to Oleg Beylezon, the chief ECM architect of Business Logic, ECM services are complemented with a set of business services - the reusable functional units suitable for use right after installation, including end users. These services considerably accelerate development of any functionality connected with management of documents and the corresponding business processes.

Changes and innovations

• Management of reference books
• Organizational and regular structure of the enterprise
• Work calendars
• Delegation
• Universal approval
• Management of registration numbers
• The business event log with documents
• Notifications and subscriptions
• Instant messaging

The release also included services which initially were not announced:

• Full-fledged functionality of management of contract activities: creation, approval, statement, control
• Full-fledged functionality of work with instructions: you can give and control instructions, build hierarchy of instructions
• Opportunity for work with the electronic signature
• Editor of models of documents and lifecycles: now creation of new document types and change of structure and the lifecycle which are already available became even simpler
• An opportunity to organize signing of documents with partners via the gateway of the protected document flow
• Report generation module

In the next version of the solution the company is going to develop necessary functionality of class EDMS (electronic document management system) and basic elements for creation of electronic archive of the organization.

Logic of ECM. Business platform. Description

According to information for March, 2013 in a system basis "Logic of ECM. The business platform" experience is put:

• The functionality of any system module should be under construction on the principles of Enterprise Content Management recognized around the world, but not on "the invention of the bicycle". The basic functionality on management of documents, business processes, joint work is already rather well implemented in many industrial systems, it is necessary to use it only intelligently.
• A system should be the most open, expanded and integrated. Too it is reasonable to borrow these qualities the ready platform and as much as possible to develop them and to support.
• A system should give us the chance to provide to customers flexible price conditions and various license mechanisms.

For implementation of these principles we selected OPEN SOURCE- the platform Alfresco Community Edition. This system successfully combines means of Document Management BPM, Collaboration also is an example of the open and harmoniously expanded architecture.

"Appreciating ECM possibilities of Alfresco Community Edition, we, nevertheless, realized that this platform leaves the solution of a number of tasks which arise practically in any project on a share of specialists implementers. It is also not necessary to forget and about some specific features of business management in our country which are insufficiently well considered in the western system — Oleg Beylezon, the chief architect of ECM solutions "Business Logic 2.0' comments. — We decided to meet this lack due to addition of Alfresco ECM services with a set of business services — reusable functional units which or are suitable for use (including end users) right after installation, or considerably accelerate development practically of any functionality connected with management of documents and the corresponding business processes in the modern organization".

This set of the business services working in a close sheaf with each other and with the ECM services provided to Alfresco Community Edition is also called "Logic of ECM. Business platform". Use of Business-platformy services perhaps right after installation of a system. And services are open as for end users, giving them a set of additional opportunities irrespective of the used functionality, and for administrators and developers on the platform who can apply services to development existing and creations of new solutions.

"Logic of ECM. The business platform" includes the following services: "Reference books", "Organizational and regular structure", Work calendar, Delegation, "Machine of statuses", Business magazine, Notifications, "Subscription to events", "Basic document", Approvals, "Magazines of registration", Reports, "Instant messaging".

On the platform the functional module "Contract activities" is implemented — to enter a convenient and easy method to work on management of lifecycle of agreements of the organization the due level of formalization and ordering, having at the same time provided to all participants of process the convenient tool supporting their activity at any stage of lifecycle of the agreement.