Kinetic Data Your business. Your process. KEG Kinetic Data Customer Conference & User Group February 24-25, 2014

Kinetic Data Your business. Your process. Little Bundles of Joy Adding a theme to your service catalog Stephanie Harms Consultant / Developer

 1 year at Kinetic Data  Phone:  Stephanie Harms Consultant / Developer Fun fact! “A factory in the United States changed the color of the bathrooms to an unpleasant green and saw production increase by 8%”

What is a Bundle?

7 Files that create a theme  Bundles are web-based add ons to Kinetic Request which allow you to quickly create a web interface to your request catalog.

Why use Kinetic Bundles?

9 Kinetic Bundles address common frustrations Before: After:

10 How Kinetic Bundles ease the pain  Easy  Cost effective  Maintainable

How are Bundles easy?

12 For the end user  Consistent look and feel  Consistent types of interaction and navigation  Familiarity with the company brand

13 For the Kinetic Request user  No need to worry about formatting forms beyond the basic options  Specific styles are simple to add using predefined css  Don’t need to be a web developer =

14 For the web developer  Use of a proven abstracted file structure & standard open technologies creates a flexible development environment.  Bundle files drop into the Kinetic Request theme directory and work right out of the box  Catalog shell is created using Kurl after a few configuration changes  Drop in bundle packages to add functionality

15 For the support team  Use of a proven abstracted file structure & standard open technologies limits investigation time  Quick updates due to common shared files  Can work on individual “parts” of the bundle without affecting the catalog as a whole.

How are Bundles cost effective?

17 There’s nothing better than FREE!  Available for download from our community website  All bundles are complete out of the box with images, css and javascript  Re-use your current branding

18 Minimal development time  Abstracted file structure and standard open technologies (html, javascript, css)  Use your current styles and images  Multiple developers

19 Drop in packaged functionality – for free  Packages are mini bundles that add specific functionality  Freely available on our community website  Easy to develop using the bundle structure Kinetic Request Kinetic Bundle Package Catalog Package Submissions Kinetic Bundle Package Submissions Package Catalog Package RKM

How are Bundles maintainable?

21 For the Kinetic Request user  You control the content  Content is managed in Kinetic Request  Theme changes are automatic

22 For the web developer  Proven abstracted file structure & common file types are easily maintainable  Global changes are quickly completed

23 For the support team  Common files allow support to know where the most common updates will happen.  Global changes are quickly completed

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