K2 provides the platform for a new generation of users to collaboratively assemble business process applications from reusable artefacts. Its solutions are deployed by a growing number of the global Fortune 100, and since the release of its first software in 2000, K2 has helped clients in more than 40 countries increase profitability and productivity.

K2 blackpearl advances the K2.net 2003 platform and extends business process management capabilities to equip users with tools to design, execute, optimise, monitor and report on process-driven applications.

Multiple design tools - browser-based or hosted in Visio, Visual Studio or SharePoint - enable all stakeholders to collaborate and create business process applications quickly, with more agility and better quality.

Specific areas of investment within the K2 blackpearl business process application platform include:

• Audience-appropriate design tools that allow both business and technical users to actively participate in the creation of business process applications
• Tools for creating reusable policies that allow for natural language and business-specific lexicon
• SharePoint support that includes an embedded design canvas as well as Visio and Visual Studio wizards for no-code integration with sites, workflows, search, libraries and lists
• Visual reporting design and execution tools that leverage SQL Server reporting services
• Data provisioning capabilities from data sources including line-of-business applications such as SAP and salesforce.com
• An event bus that allows stakeholders to subscribe to changes in business data or status
• Built on .NET 3.0 – leveraging WF, WCF, and WPF

K2 solutions are deployed by a growing number of the global Fortune 100. K2, a business unit of SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc., is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, and has offices all over the world.