K2 blackpoint has a powerful Office-style designer (K2 Studio) and a Silverlight-based K2 Web Designer that provides profound simplicity. Non-developers and business users can use K2 blackpoint to create new SharePoint workflows that span libraries, sites, InfoPath forms, server farms and organizations; manage approvals; and route documents and list items. With K2 blackpoint, everything is visual and wizard-driven, everything can be built without code, and users can assemble new applications from information that already exists.

K2 blackpoint’s price point — starting at just $5,000 (U.S.) — is competitive with other low-cost offerings, so it’s easy to get started with workflows and process-driven applications.

And because it’s a subset of K2 blackpearl® features, K2 blackpoint offers an upgrade path so organizations can grow their investment and add capabilities over time, if needed.

Visually design processes within SharePoint

• Build SharePoint workflows and applications using an Office-style designer or the Silverlight-based K2 Web Designer.
• Leverage contextual information about sites, libraries and users.
• Define what actions are available to users of the process.
• Use SharePoint users and groups as destinations.

Use K2 blackpoint capabilities to make work easy and increase efficiency

• Manage list items, documents, libraries, Web content, sites and workspaces, and records.
• Build processes that move information and documents between libraries and lists across SharePoint sites and servers.
• Surface information through process portals.
• Integrate with SharePoint workflow.
• Surface tasks through the K2 Tasklist Web part.
• Leverage existing external functionality and information via Web and Windows Communication Foundation services.
• Applications can be set up to handle simple tasks or to manage complex scenarios.

Leverage out-of-the-box features for fastprocess assembly

• SharePoint forms are automatically created, based on process design.
• Reports provide visibility into the business.
• Wizards guide users through configuration of check-in, check-out, move, copy and deletion of documents and list items, as well as e-mail notifications.

Work in familiar environments and with intuitive tools

• Workflows are accessed through standard SharePoint menus.
• Workflows can be initiated manually or as a result of events.
• Tasks are available in SharePoint task lists and can surface tasks federated across all sites, processes and SharePoint servers.
• Tasks can be surfaced in Outlook through SharePoint task synchronization.
• Tasks are available through the Office Business Bar.