PowerWF Studio™ unleashes the potential of Microsoft PowerShell and Windows Workflow Foundation by providing a visual integrated development environment (IDE) that virtually eliminates the need to write scripts. PowerWF's IDE provides a central environment for building, debugging, and deploying your scripts and workflows. It includes a wide array of pre-packaged activities that support these standard industry platforms. Using the PowerWF™ environment, administrators can quickly and easily automate their daily repetitive tasks.
Organizations are increasingly looking to automate administrators' daily lives. Microsoft responded with two key technologies: Windows PowerShell, which has become the preferred scripting language for Windows administrators, and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), a rich visual environment for modeling and defining business rules.
Yet both of these technologies have limitations. PowerShell scripts become increasingly difficult to read and maintain over time. Windows Workflow offers a completely visual style of programming that makes it easy to develop and maintain programs, but lacks PowerShell's rich feature-set and support.
PowerWF combines both technologies into a single easy-to-use product that replaces legacy batch files, scripts and custom application development, enabling you to completely automate your IT Processes without writing a single line of code. Greater automation reduces latency in service delivery and the risk of human error - the primary cause of downtime. It also cuts your costs for maintaining existing systems, leaving more resources for new IT initiatives.
More than the sum of its parts ...
Organizations are increasingly looking to automate administrators' daily lives. Microsoft responded with two key technologies: Windows PowerShell, which has become the preferred scripting language for Windows administrators, and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), a rich visual environment for modeling and defining business rules.
Yet both of these technologies have limitations. PowerShell scripts become increasingly difficult to read and maintain over time. Windows Workflow offers a completely visual style of programming that makes it easy to develop and maintain programs, but lacks PowerShell's rich feature-set and support.
PowerWF combines both technologies into a single easy-to-use product that replaces legacy batch files, scripts and custom application development, enabling you to completely automate your IT Processes without writing a single line of code. Greater automation reduces latency in service delivery and the risk of human error - the primary cause of downtime. It also cuts your costs for maintaining existing systems, leaving more resources for new IT initiatives.
Eliminate Code
PowerWF™ enables you to build automated solutions using a simple drag-and-drop graphical user interface. No coding is required to quickly create powerful workflows that automate your daily tasks. This reduces costs and hassles associated with developing and maintaining code, scripts, and batch files.
Reduce Errors
Eighty percent of downtime is the result of human error. Automated management processes developed using PowerWF reduce latency in service delivery and the risk of human errors.
Increase Visibility
While traditional scripting tools require complicated programming logic and vendor APIs, PowerWF's visual "flow chart" paradigm hides these complexities, allowing you to concentrate on your business processes and collaborate more effectively with stakeholders. It also reduces errors and speeds the process of developing workflows.
Improve Productivity
Unlike traditional scripting tools, PowerWF gives you a uniform methodology for developing your business processes and a similar look-and-feel for all workflows. This consistent programming model improves productivity and decreases maintenance costs.
Decrease Maintenance Costs
Because workflows are represented visually to the developer as flow-charts and are coupled with built-in annotation, your scripts are essentially self-documented, making them easy to understand. This helps you reduce the 80% of your IT budget you spend maintaining existing systems, making resources available for new IT initiatives.
Protect your Investment
Whether you need to bring a Legacy application into Workflow and Powershell or export a Workflow or Powershell solution to a Legacy environment, PowerWF™ provides the capabilities you need to get the job done.
PowerWF protects your investment by supporting a myrid of methods to use your workflows. Whether you're a looking to use workflow within an existing .NET application or shell scripts, or looking forward to integration with PowerShell. PowerWF is there to support you.
Integrated Development Environment
PowerWF Studio's powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) gives you a central place to build, debug, and deploy your scripts and workflows. Because it uses a Microsoft user interface, it is also easy to use. Capabilities include:

Deploy Anywhere

PowerWF protects your existing investments by giving you myriad ways to use your workflows, including within shell scripts, an existing .NET application, or integrated with PowerShell. Features include:

VMWare Activity Pack

The VIX activity pack furnishes building blocks that allow you to quickly develop complex workflows that automate virtual machine operations, as well as the guests within virtual machines. PowerWF supports all the functions available within VMware's VIX API with none of complexities. The product covers VMware Server 1.0, VMware Server 2.0 or earlier, Workstation 6.5 or earlier, and ESX/ESXi 3.5 U3. Available activities include:

Standard Packs
More than 150 activities "in the box" to get you started managing your OS and filesystems, monitoring and pushing data on the network, scraping output from both local and remote shell commands, visualizing data in several easy to read from dialogs, data manipulation activities to lubricate data flow, and more.

VMXBuilder Tools

PowerWF comes with awarding winning tools, developed by VMWare expert Robert Petruska, that provide easy-to-use GUI front ends for the command-line tools available for VMware Workstation. These tools make PowerWF a one-stop shop for VMware Workstation tools. They include:

