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Quick overview

BMC Helix Platform helps you to build your own applications with the help of different designer consoles, deploy them for the end users of these applications, and manage or configure them. BMC Helix Innovation Studio helps you establish data requirements, expose fields for your user interface, and implement complex powerful business processes.

BMC Helix Innovation Studio is based on a Model View Controller pattern, which helps you to separate database tables, business logic, and user interface. You can upload the applications and libraries developed in BMC Helix Innovation Studio in a central repository, called Marketplace, from where other developers can download them for reuse.

BMC Helix Platform provides the following features to create applications and libraries:

Solutions for your business needs
Solves problem without substantial code changes
Applies new technology to products to enhance your products
Integrates with other applications
Creates shareable code extensions

Product roles

BMC Helix Platform has simplified the day to day activities of different user roles. The product primarily aims at simplifying the regular activities of the roles as shown in the following image:

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Product features

BMC Helix Innovation Studio includes the following consoles that help you to achieve specific goals:

Definition designers	Description

Records	Defines the application data model by creating, editing, or deleting the record definitions.
Views	Designs the user interface for applications.
Processes	Creates and customizes business processes of an application.
Rules	Creates and customizes business rules of an application.
Associations	Creates associations between records of an application
Named Lists	Creates drop-down menus in an application that make data entry faster and more accurate for your application users.
Documents	Creates definition to access individual attributes within a metadata object and then use those attributes in an expression for a process
Chatbots	Creates and configures single or multiple specialized chatbots.
Web APIs	Creates or edits Web API definitions. Web API definitions are the REST API web requests that you use to connect to RESTful services in a codeless way.
Events	Creates or edits application events and their attributes that you track to derive usage metrics.
Event Statistics	Specifies the aggregation period for the events, such as daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.
Configurations	Creates the application settings interface that you can display on the Administration tab.

Product documentation

The BMC Helix Platform documentation helps new and experienced users implement or use this product. Based on your role, the following sections of the documentation are recommended:

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User assistance

A number of channels are available through which the developer community can get support.

You can log on to BMC Developer community to get support from other developers by using Developer portal. Experts from BMC can help you out with your queries.
You can look at Developer portal to collaborate with like-minded developers. You can co-create, innovate, and create applications.
Access the tutorial to create a sample application.

If you are a Remedy developer, you can review the Comparison-between-Developer-Studio-and-BMC-Helix-Innovation-Studio-capabilities constructs.

Within BMC Helix Innovation Studio, you can use tool-tips to get in-place assistance for populating fields, you can use the guided tours created for key use cases by using the Self-help widget, or you can take a tutorial that takes you through building an application process.

The following video (2:47) provides an overview of accessing the self-help within BMC Helix Innovation Studio: