App Overview

The Solution

App Overview is the first ever "true" Software Documentation Solution. App Overview works because it is the only solution that allows your Software Teams to capture information about your Software. Your Teams can only document your Software if it is fast, easy and intuitive.

Get Answers Quickly

Documenting Software will only work if you can both add and find documentation quickly. App Overview is extremely easy to use and intuitive, because documentation is saved in a structure that is closely modeled like your Software.

Everyone Is An Expert

Everything your Software Teams need to know is just a few clicks away, which virtually makes everyone an expert. How would this impact your Software Team's ability to create a superior Software Product?

Explore Your Software

The Objects and Relationships you define in App Overview allow you to visually explore your Software. There is no drawing required because App Overview generates the pages to explore your Software at different levels.

Only App Overview Solves Software Documentation

How We Do It

App Overview satisfies the most important key factors that are required in a Solution that will allow Software Teams to document their Software.

One is that it must be fast, easy, and intuitive to ensure people use it and it stays up to date. It must also provide a "structure" that allows you to capture every possible relationship of objects that exist in your software, or exists in your mind about your software. It must be centralized and comprehensive and allow everything that is part of your Software application to be documented. Lastly, it should allow Teams to manage their own documentation that is relevant to them and exclude other documentation as necessary.

Fast, Easy and Intuitive

App Overview stores your documentation on top of a structure of your Software. We cover the structure more in the next section, but this is the reason App Overview provides a fast, easy and intuitive experience. When navigating within App Overview, you already know where to find what you are looking for. Of course, you get all of the benefits of a centralized documentation repository that you can easily search for the Software artifacts or key words you are looking for. But if a general text search fails, you know exactly where to go to find or add documentation. Only App Overview provides the "right" way to store Software documentation.

The Structure of Software

App Overview is the only solution that allows Software documentation, because of its unique approach to Software documentation. In order to capture documentation about Software, you need to first document the Software itself - meaning you need a framework that allows your Software objects and relationships to be captured as individual items. Without this framework, we believe it to be impossible to document your software.

With a foundational structure that represents your Software, you can not quickly and intuitively locate the documentation you need, but you can also visually explore your software, and "see" your software in a sense, that will further help your understanding of your software better. Only App Overview provides a framework that represents your Software System.

Centralized

For a Software Documentation Solution to have any chance of surviving and providing value and benefit to the IT Organization, it must be centralized. When time is of the essence in finding answers, you can't waste time searching in various places. In today's world, Software documentation is scattered throughout the organization such as the code comments, Word documents, e-mails, SharePoint or Wikis, Power Point, etc. Because of this, most of your valuable documentation is simply abandoned. App Overview provides a single source for all of your answers.

Comprehensive

Software is comprised of many different layers, such as the UI, App Code and Database. Additionally, there are many different technologies and languages used. Many solutions today focus on one layer, or one type of language or technology, and fall short of providing a comprehensive solution. When you want to understand your Software, you need to see everything that is used. App Overview allows all of your Software artifacts to be included and related, providing a comprehensive view of your Software.

Minimal Learning Curve

Some Software Documentation solutions, like UML for example, require you to learn a modeling language. Therefore, those who do not know how to read or understand the modeling language can not benefit from it. App Overview is so simple and easy to use that your whole Team will understand it right away. This creates instant adoption and maximizes usage of App Overview, ensuring it will continue to be used and provide value to the Organization.

Team Based

After you have located the area of the Software you want to get documentation for, it's possible you can be overwhelmed with too much documentation and find it takes too long to locate what you need. There can be half a dozen Teams that have captured documentation for the same area. App Overview allows you to save your documentation by Team, so you can find what is most relevant to you, but also explore others documentation (with proper permissions). Documenting by Team allows documentation specific to just what your Team needs, and removes a lot of additional text and information that can slow down the process of getting the answers you need.