All right. Here we have Brenton House. He is the Head
of Developer Relations here at Axway. How you doing man? I'm doing great, Todd, how are you?
Good good. I am super impressed about what you and your team have come up
with here - the Griffin App. We're super excited about being able to do it. It's been great. I'm
really excited to dive in a little bit more. You're going to give me a tour, we'll walk
through this app that you guys have have come up with and I'm excited to learn more about it
So I know that here at Axway we have about I think over 2000 employees and and nearly 30 offices and,
let me check here, 17 countries. So that's a lot of people to keep track of. Can this app
handle all that? It can. It is very flexible. It works with different regions. As you know,
returning the office - it's complicated. It's complicated and complex issues because
you have regional requirements that might be per country but it also could be per state if you're
in the United States. Say one state might have different restrictions than another state so
you might have one office, if you have multiple offices across even one country,
you could have potentially different policies and you might want to implement people
safely returning to the office differently. Yeah so the app has to be... it has to be flexible no
matter what country or location they're in, right? Absolutely yes. It does. Well tell us, let's dive
in. Show me how it works. What we did is we used the AMPLIFY platform to create an API and
a mobile app and then integrate that also with other parts of our AMPLIFY platform together.
So, if you look at my, this app that you can see here it's already started but it's going to prompt
you then to build to say, select which office you're in, so I log in as an employee and then
right there at the top i can choose which office I'm near or the office that i want to use, right?
Right and for this demo I've selected the Atlanta office but like I said you could choose from any
of your office. Part of what is important now for both the employee and the employer is knowing
what the regional requirements are for that area in that office.
So here you can see upcoming for this for this office we've set a limit of two so that means that
for this upcoming time a maximum two people can be in the office at any one time. Say you
have multiple offices in one city and or you're going to visit another office in another part of
the country or another country. You can you still use the same app and you can change your office.
So say Atlanta is my home office and that's where I usually am but I want to select Phoenix
because I'm going to be off visiting the Phoenix office. So I could select the Phoenix office
and now everything in the app is based on that Phoenix office and that way if you need to you
can find out if you need to be in the office on a certain day, how many people are going to
be in the office that day, so that's convenient. But you can also have, you can control it by say,
weeks, so you could say "you know what, um for the same office um how we did it for actually at some
offices is we have it for some weeks, half the company, half the team can come in on those weeks.
And so hey, if I want to come in this week it's it's closed for me but if you're going to say Team
B, the other team it's open for you. So that way it's a nice easy way of building schedule
you can see every other week. I can schedule myself to come in the office for that well.
That's fantastic. I mean as you mentioned before, we have there are different building regulations,
sometimes the screening questions for being able to go into an office building - I mean, that's
very local and so it sounds like you can customize quite a bit just right there on the office level.
You see I have this administer on the office i'm just going to show you this here real
quick while we're here. Normally you wouldn't see that but as the administrator you will
so if you need to go and say, "I'm gonna - I need to go look at this particular office
so I can see on what my capacities are set for so for this particular office you can see i set
a limit of zero for this particular week and then i went up to 39. So every other week I happened
to set it but if i wanted to do change something i could change this from say hey in this week, zero,
we really need to allow five people in the office or we need to do something. I could change that
and then the five people that were assigned to that office and could come into the office. Oh
interesting. So an HR or a building manager could go in there and change the limits depending on
you know what they needed or had to do. Right absolutely. And you can do it based on, you could
say we're gonna allow a regional person to be able to control this because they're very familiar with
the HR and the government regulations and other things that need to be in place in order to safely
have people return to the office. So I'm going to change back to the Atlanta office here just for
just to build a demo. So in the current office you can see in that list of offices you can see what
the max capacity is. We just happened to sort by max capacity because then it just people kind of
knew the bigger offices from the smaller ones. But you could or I could tell some are some are larger
in capacity, some are smaller. So if we go back to here. Say i want to go into the Atlanta office and
I want to find, I need to go in and I need to work with you so I need to find a day
that Todd's in the office. so um i can see here that someone's in the office on some of these
days and i click on the 12th. I happen to know you're in the office, you scheduled yourself
for the office. and it's well. So I'm like, I need to schedule myself for this day because
it's important that you and I for that for something we're working on we need to be in person
together in the office so I'm gonna go ahead and schedule myself for that day and then what we do
with the app is we have privacy first. So I could see your name on there and it said Todd is going
to be in the office but by default that's not the case so when I schedule myself for the um to come
into the office by default it's just going to say anonymous employee and now I can go in there. So
you can see here it says anonymous employee and Todd are going to be in the office that's because
we don't want to share names unless that person chooses to do so well i say well i want i choose
to do so and unless here if i go into settings I can say schedule visible to peers. All right
yeah because in some instances, you may just want to peek into the office or you know you just want
to get in there really quick where other times maybe you want to make confirm with others that
you're actually there. Yep. And again that, a lot of that, has to do too - you might have different
policies across different countries as well as far as pharmacy goes so if i go back to schedule
here and I go back here you can see the 12th now is 100 capacity. So if I were someone else
coming in to schedule for this day i wouldn't be able to schedule myself for this day because
it's full now but you notice now instead of "Anonymous employee" it says Brenton House. Yeah
so you and i That's neat, and it shows us at capacity because in this
for this scenario there's only two people - I've got it. So there's another way that
you can schedule yourself for the office as well you can click edit your schedule and
this way a lot it gives you happens to give you a calendar view that will come up and it allows you
to see kind of at a glance what days are available what days are blocked and what days you've already
selected. You can see um uh like up ahead you can see the green checks are the ones that um
that i'm already scheduled for. And yeah if uh if a particular day had been say there was two people
already in office then you'd see a red block there so i know I can't schedule myself for that day.
So it's just another way to be able to see um what's available. Yeah it's
a very personalized way to go about scheduling yourself. I mean that's a lot of peace of mind
to play be able to plan ahead. Especially if you already know what days you're going to be going in
um you can book several days you can just sit there and click all the days that you know you're
going to be you need to go in the office and you don't have to go to each single day and select it
oh awesome. Okay. So what tell me what else can be done? So there there are some other features that
you might not see in here we have the ability when we open source the code for this app
and we put out on Github is we gave you the ability to change um your colors and themes
and everything um to be what you want for this app. For this particular Axway app we
chose the red and that's our brand color. We use that and we have it throughout and we have um
things like secondary colors and primary colors and different things that you can set in there
to make sure that it fit our brand well if you take the code and you want to implement it for
your company all you have to do is go in there, change your logo, change your primary colors and
secondary colors, other things that might have to do with that theme, and also in this app will look
totally different because now it'll be branded for your company instead of ours. So we just put
that in there because we thought It'd be nice for people to make it your own having the ability to
customize i think that's an essential thing here. I think it's great that you guys built that in.
It is and this happens to be on iOS that you're seeing. This here but we're using our AMPLIFY
tools and AMPLIFY Titanium we built this app once and it and it runs and works natively on both iOS
and Android. So no matter if if we have a team member that has iOS device or Android device
they're going to get the same experience and it's going to be a native experience. It's very quick
and very responsive so and this app does then talk to our AMPLIFY APIs which we also we also provide
the source code for the api so if you want to implement your APIs and get going with that
as well, you can do that. What about like if a company wanted to implement their own um SSO would
they be able to do that? They can. So we allowed it do you develop a swap out single sign-on for
whatever provider that you you want to we happen to have it set up for ours but you can set up and
change it. So tell me how if I were at a different company and I was interested in using this
what would i need to do? So we just recently put out the source code as well as instructions on
how to implement both the mobile app and the APIs and what you could do is to get started easily is
just, if you don't already, have an Axway platform account is just go get a platform account and
you could get going and get started and start hosting your APIs get your mobile app up and
running. There's instructions and everything there and we have a great communities out
there for people that have questions about using AMPLIFY products and not only that, but we have
Axway people as well they're quick to respond to any questions you might have for getting started.
That's great. I mean implementing something like this though i'm guessing it probably took you guys
a long time to build it it's probably going to take other people a really long time am I right?
Oh yeah it took years. No it was really quick and that is one of the benefits of being able to use
the AMPLIFY platform and build the integrations there i mean in just a matter of weeks we were
able to build up a native app for ios and android as well as apis and just get everything up and
running quickly because there was a need at our company and the need doesn't go away. It's very
timely and we needed a solution and so it only made sense that we should use our AMPLIFY product
and it was just great it worked out just like we thought and we were able to get it in the hands of
all the Axway employees very quickly oh that's so great, And I think other companies are going to be
running into the same issue where they want to do the something quickly that's timely and get into
the hands of their employees. Hey Brenton, thank you once again for guiding me through how this app
works. I love that it's it's out there, the source code is out there on Github, ready to go for
for companies to use and then leverage on their own. So thanks again for your time today Brenton
and uh again your team has done a wonderful job. For all those who are watching this
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