K2 blackpoint: Better than I thought

You may already be aware; Mixon Consulting was announced as the K2 blackpoint training partner for North America.  As a result, I have been deep in the development of K2 blackpoint training materials.  This product is amazing!  Just yesterday, I created a full-functioning, feature rich customer on-boarding process application and didn't write a single line of code.  This process application starts with an InfoPath 2007 form, browser enabled with Form Services, provides all the input validation and approvals (with escalation and out of office), provisions a new site for the customer, sets all the security, creates lists and libraries, then updates the Site Directory with the correct categorization.  No kidding, it took me less than a day to write it, deploy it and test it!

Quite often you hear me talk about the only way to truely enforce Governance is through automation; i.e. workflow.  K2 blackpoint supports this with complete (and I mean complete) SharePoint integration; including support for Publishing Sites, Provisioning, Security, Records Management and much more.  If you are interested in downloading the beta go to http://blackpoint.k2.com.  Mixon Consulting webinars and training will begin next month!

The other thing that came to mind was to use this product to facilitate content and site classification.  An example, when a new site is provisioned by the workflow, you can update the Site Directory and other lists to classify it.  This will then facilitate the navigation.  This could also be done with content.  K2 blackpoint supports all SharePoint event models so upon the creation of a new list or library item, you could update other lists (even in other Site Collections) that are used to group the information in different ways!

Cool stuff...