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Version: 10.2.9

Adopt ODF

Automation is not our enemy. Our enemies are ignorance, indifference, and inertia. If we understand it, if we plan for it, if we apply it well, automation will not be a job destroyer. Instead, it can remove dullness from the work of man and provide him with more than man has ever had before.

President Lyndon Johnson, 1964

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Benefits of ODF by WorkFusion​

  1. All enterprise-grade Work.AI project SDLC (including multi-team) guides are now based on ODF.
  2. A WorkFusion Product committed to including patches required for ODF into future releases. ODF will be supported out of the box by Work.AI.
  3. The ODF team committed to supporting the released versions of ODF, which is to fix "showstopper" and "critical" bugs.
  4. First platform version to support ODF is 9.2; the new version of ODF to be released after (within a month) major and minor Product release, i.e., 9.2, 9.3, ..., 10.x.
  5. ODF is open for contributions from Partners and Clients. ODF comes with a technical contribution way and Contribution Policy. WorkFusion reserves rights to decide if the contribution is beneficial for all users and if it will be pulled in.
  6. WorkFusion provides enablement for teams that start with ODF, including:
    • A new online Academy Automation Engineer Specialist course
    • Inclusion into the F2F Automation Developer Lab
    • Assistance with the first adoption by key Partners (via the Pilot week and series of online sessions)
  7. ODF becomes the centralized "app store" for the distribution of reusable Work.AI components.

ODF Benefits for Partner (vs. using own version of the framework)​

  1. WorkFusion can patch Product to deliver better ODF features (for example, auto-replacement for BCB).
  2. WorkFusion can evolve WorkFusion IDE to make SDLC better (for example, add BP designer into Eclipse).
  3. The centralized vendor-recommended solution is easier to advise to adopt across all clients (some have two concurrent versions of own Framework so far).
  4. WorkFusion provides ODF comprehensive documentation, online education, and F2F education.
  5. WorkFusion provides open source-code and repository for ODF.
    • Easy and fast to start adopting. It can start even before the on-prem environment is rolled-out.
    • Easy to extend when required.