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m-Power’s AI Update: Bring AI to Your Data, Applications, and Workflows

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Over the last year or so, we’ve focused on one big goal: Bring AI to your business data, applications, and workflows…on your terms.

We’ve just released a new m-Power update that makes this goal a reality. m-Power now lets you build:

  • AI Assistants that understand your data and your rules
  • AI Workflows that automate multi-step processes
  • AI-powered Chatbots that live inside your applications and provide assistance using live data and company documents
  • AI Content Retrievers that turn documents and knowledge bases into live, searchable AI knowledge
  • AI Tool Functions that connect AI directly to your applications and live business data
  • AI Agents that can coordinate tasks, call tools, and move work forward within your rules

All of this runs over the systems you already use, with IT in control of data access, security, and deployment.

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Coming soon: AI that understands your business

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Can you believe that ChatGPT isn’t even 3 years old?

Yet, AI is everywhere now. Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI adoption exploded. It’s in everything now, from physical products to business software.

We’ve been following AI’s evolution closely, asking two questions on repeat: How do we bring AI to your business data, applications, and workflow? How do we make it useful in your environment, under your rules?

Over the last few years, we’ve noticed something. Many of the “AI features” added to business software stop at a chat interface. Sure, it’s handy for quick answers. Less helpful when you need to advance a workflow, act on a record, respect role based security, or perform tasks autonomously. 

You need AI that understands your data, calls the right systems, and fits the way your team already builds.

That is the bar we set. Bring AI to the business. Plug it into your applications and workflows. Keep IT in control. Deliver value on day one.

The good news: It’s almost here.

Coming soon to m-Power.

Stay tuned.

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What are the best low-code tools?

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I’m happy to report that m-Power was just recognized by Schematiq as one of the best low-code tools available today! When you look at m-Power, it’s easy to see why. We’ve poured over 40 years of development software experience into m-Power, and it certainly shows.

That got me thinking: What makes a great low-code tool? After all, there are so many low-code tools these days. What separates the great ones from the rest of the pack?

In this short article, let’s take a quick dive into this topic.

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The fastest low-code platform just got faster

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developmentI’m happy to announce that we’ve recently released a revamped front-end for our m-Power Development Platform! The result: Improved speed and usability. For those unfamiliar, m-Power is a low-code application development platform that lets anyone build enterprise web applications without coding. It creates all types of custom web applications such as report-writing, BI, executive dashboards, e-commerce, customer portals, and mobile applications to name a few.

With this release, we redesigned and rebuilt m-Power’s front-end from the ground up. The main goals of the project: Improve speed, keep pace with current trends, and incorporate new technologies into the interface.

The results: With a revamped front-end, m-Power is now the fastest low-code platform available today. How so? With this latest release, m-Power received a speed boost on several levels:
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mrc Partners with Splice Machine to Improve Application Development over Hadoop

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EducationSummary: We’ve recently partnered with Splice Machine, creators of the only Hadoop RDBMS! Learn what this partnership means to IT leaders and CIOs, and how it can help you address strategic challenges facing your company. Also, visit the demo site to see this partnership in action.
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New charting now available in m-Power

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AnnouncementI’m happy to announce that m-Power’s reporting and Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities just received a major boost! We just released an update that includes much improved graphing and charting capabilities, and I think you’ll love it.

Now, you’ll still find all of the charting features you’ve come to expect out of m-Power, like chart drill-downs, tooltips, mobile charting capabilities, etc… We didn’t remove any existing features. We did, however, add some new capabilities that will help you create better web applications with m-Power. For instance, m-Power users can now:
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New graphs and charts (with demo)!

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AnnouncementI’m excited to announce that we’re bringing improved graphs and charts to m-Power! They’ll be available to m-Power users in the coming weeks, but if you’d like to get a glimpse of what’s in store, head on over to Crazybikes.

While you’ll find the new graphs and charts across many of the applications over on Crazybikes, you’ll see the widest variety on the User-Defined Dashboard demo. Try adding a few different charts, graphs, or gauges to the dashboard to get a glimpse of what the new m-Power charting will look like.

How will this help you? Here are a few ways:
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Pre-registration is now open for a new consulting program

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AnnouncementI’m happy to say that we’ve just opened up pre-registration for a brand new consultant program! This new program gives consultants access to a low-cost, cloud-based version of our enterprise web application development platform, m-Power.

If you’re a consultant, you’re familiar with the struggle of finding new projects. Completing the project is the fun part. It’s the lull between projects that makes consulting difficult.

Small, and one-man consulting operations have an especially difficult job. After all, they can’t afford to hire a marketing and sales to team to bring in business for them. They handle all aspects of their business themselves. The majority of their time is spent either working on projects or looking for new projects.

The problem with this arrangement: In between working on projects and finding new projects, there’s little time to keep your skills current. How can you keep up with the ever-changing technology trends if you spend all of your time working on, or looking for, projects? Why is this such a problem? Because consultants who fall behind the rapidly changing technology curve risk losing out on valuable new business in the future.

Now, larger consultant shops often address these problems with development platforms (like m-Power). This offers a number of benefits, such as:
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Partnering Opportunities . . .

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AnnouncementWe are looking for a few good companies who want to help us help them to make this world a better and more productive place through the creative application of m-Power in the business world.

Could you be what we are looking for? There is only one way to find out. Jot me an email describing how we might work together to achieve our common goals.

There is no formula here. You don’t have to be in a particular industry. You can be a consultant, but you don’t have to be. You can be an application software company, but that’s not mandatory. You can be into Business Intelligence, or end user report writing, or web application development, or application modernization, government consulting, or any number of things.

Are you a company that can help us profitably spread the productivity benefits of m-Power throughout the world? This document outlines a few partnership benefits, and there are also lots of good strategy reasons you might be interested.

If you sell an application or wish to develop an application to sell with m-Power, our pricing is as straight forward as it can be. There are no seat licenses, run-times, or distribution fees to worry about.

So, if this is something you might want to explore, send me an email with your thoughts: joestangarone@mrc-productivity.com.