Low Code

Design

VISUALLY

The complete Primordia specification stack is supported by visual development tools, accessible through any channel. As a designer, you can use classical forms and wizards to specify assets or you can choose to exploit visual drag and drop designers to complete your design tasks. Both ways, you get the same result: rapid application delivery without coding. And you don’t have to worry; even if your specifications are incomplete or have errors, Primordia will make them work anyway. Of course this is not a common case, since the platform offers automated asset validation tools in each and every layer, so as to verify soundness and coherence of your work prior to publishing it for integration or deployment.

You can use automated intelligent tools to generate standardized specification assets in all layers and deliver a complete app with full navigation, by just using descriptive meta-data in your database schema. Just prepare your tables and fields, define descriptions, indicate parent and relative foreign keys, and you are almost done; just one more click, and Primordia will parse meta data and generate in a few minutes the required models, collections, standard behavior rules, CRUD services, full set of operations for managing your data, micro-apps for your menu and finally one complete, sound and fully operational app, accessible from any channel. You just need to put data to unfold its potential or to assign it to end users to rapidly get a first functional idea of what they will finally get and provide their feedback for re-engineering.

Unified Access of

APPS

You can access all apps you have been authorized to, from a central console within each Primordia node. Everything you need to perform your every-day work, accessible collectively through a single page, from any device or channel. Just sign in, and Primordia will offstage determine roles and permissions associated with your user account and work position, and customize your app access console in no time.

Exploit and Connect

DATA SOURCES

Data is the most important asset of a modern organization; the way data is organized, accessed, processed and managed can have a significant effect on operational performance, productivity and control. Thus, designing and deploying a robust, cohesive, all-inclusive, scalable and centrally governed information architecture, keeping data unique, properly associated and constantly updated, promoting information synthesis, compound analysis and knowledge creation, and enforcing uniformed data access and interpretation by any technology operated across the organization, is beyond doubt the greatest challenge for any IT manager nowadays. The challenge becomes greater for large-scale organizations with a wide range of diverse business processes, typical users of numerous, domain-specific, software applications with proprietary data structures and of diverse technology, often obsolete or unsupported.

Visualize

DATA

Users are hard to satisfy. They often accept or reject an application judging from the way information is displayed and functionality is offered. Primordia offers unique options for illustrating and processing your organization’s information assets and generating knowledge, no matter their format or location. Grids, trees, graphs, charts or networks are just a few data visualizations available to designers for advancing user experience and increasing information insight. And they are all exploitable without coding.

You can design beautiful dashboards to demonstrate information wealth, with diverse visual reconfigurable components, passing through parameters to each other in real time. You can use lists or grids to visually arrange entity sets of a single model or extended entity sets from a collection. You can choose tree components to visualize data hierarchy within a model, or among different models related to each other. Composite cards enable you to segment and visually organize data of a record set or cross model record-sets, using drag and drop visual editors. Data networks can be visually developed using map operations orchestrating node and link fetcher services. Aggregated information can be easily generated and visualized using alternative interactive charts of multiple dimensions. You can use spatial data attributes to arrange information upon geographical maps. Those are just a few options you have, and even more are about to come in the near future.

As soon as you choose the preferred visual component for your data, Primordia offers you unlimited options to customize its appearance. You can define display priority among elements per screen size, decide how data cells will be displayed (e.g. text, icon, tooltip, colored box etc), attach an image background, customize colors of card segments and determine the available actions as well as the input provisions to other components. Moreover, you can allow end users to visualize the same data with alternative visual components in real time. You just check the option, and Primordia will reconfigure its engine to make this happen, translating the same specifications to achieve a different visual result.

Master

DATA BEHAVIOR

Primordia incorporates a powerful Data Behavior Control Engine along with graphical design tools to define behavioral rules upon data element properties. You can use drag & drop functionality to design tree-structured expressions and serial actions so as to determine how data should behave depending on other data behavior. According to specifications, the platform validates expressions in real time, through sequential loops of highly optimized algorithms, until data element properties are formulated, and dynamically adjusts user interface (visual attributes) and data (values).

Behavioral Rules can be utilized so as to define data display or entry form multiplex controls and validations, or even to shape highly sophisticated data manipulation processes for execution in the background. Since properties can be combined with no restrictions, you can design even the most complex behavioral patterns - really almost anything - but you can always rely on the platform to ensure a meaningful result.

INTEGRATE

YOUR CODE

Primordia enables designers to easily integrate premade or new code to the platform and extend its possibilities, using the Function specification. This way you can reuse existing software assets to manipulate legacy data or develop new to perform complex transactions, where modeling is not an effective solution.

A Function specification is an abstract representation of external software assets, from complete applications to SQL scripts, and as such it defines how data can be exchanged among the platform operations and the plugins, without additional coding. Functions are most valuable, when plugins are developed following Primordia standards for data flow, as well as when plugins are using Primordia API to retrieve and store data from the platforms’ Model repositories. Service designers will generate a Function Specification in order to document to the programmers how a required plugin should operate, while programmers will define a Function in order to document how an existing plugin can be reused by Primordia designers. You can order plug-ins development from Primordia programmers of any interfaced node, load them to your host platform, and manage them coherently from a central console.

Connect Everything

SMART

Design

COLLABORATIVELY

Developing apps with Primordia is a process actively engaging the end user community. End users can review app deployments in test or acceptance environment, and directly submit their comments for apps optimization. Specification managers monitor users’ feedback, register and assign issues to the involved designer communities, while controlling the overall redesign process and measuring performance and user acceptance. As a designer you can have instant access to your assignments and notifications, in order to effectively manage work to be done. Use drag and drop functionality to move your assignments across development phases, and invite other designers to work together in complex issues.

SHARE

ASSETS

Your specifications can be instantly available to other designers of the same or higher layers if your manager authorizes so, even if they belong to different beneficiaries. Sharing assets among designer communities is our primary philosophy here in Primordia.

Automate

BUSINESS PROCESSES

Primordia incorporates a powerful Business Process Management engine, along with visual process modeling tools, allowing organizations to streamline their workflows for optimal productivity and value stream management. With the fully BPMN 2.0 compatible Visual Process Modeler you can easily design simple and complex processes and collaborations to automate and optimize your daily activity by connecting information, people, systems, devices and things in one place.

Connect tasks with Operations, and link processes with Primordia apps to gather, share and manage business information from a single task management console.
Empower your teams to work autonomously, while also aligning their planning towards organizational objectives.

With Primordia you can invite your business partners to use your own node installation to design and automate their internal workflows. Connect them with your own and use the integrated messaging engine to collaborate transparently, without coding at all.

Use historical data to simulate workflow operation in order to figure out the best case to achieve operational intelligence, digital transformation and continuous improvement.
Evaluate workforce productivity in real time and audit data access in process, task, operation or individual service level, achieving 100% compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation.

Deploy and

MANAGE

Each Primordia node is a multi-beneficiary and multi user work space. However, beneficiaries may need different apps or app releases, and users may have different privileges on the same processes in different periods.

Primordia incorporates an advanced Apps Deployment Dashboard through which this complexity is totally simplified. As soon as they are published for testing, user acceptance or production, app releases are deployed to beneficiary groups, but their processes (micro-apps and workflows) get assigned to individual beneficiaries. Thus, within the same app release, one beneficiary may have access to the same or different processes compared to other members of the respective group. In order for assigned processes to be accessible by end-users, the involved roles per category (performer, participant, supervisor) must be appointed to them. This way, one user may have different privilege on the same process compared to other users of the same beneficiary. Those assignments can be easily granted, activated, reconfigured, terminated, suspended or reactivated when necessary, in individual or group level, with just one click.