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    Workflow involves the automatic routing of documents to the appropriate users based on business processes. It ensures documents move through the required steps on a set timeline and alerts managers if operations fall behind schedule. Integrating workflow into existing applications may require extensive programming since workflow needs access to individual application routines. Workflow differs from workgroup software by focusing on structured processes rather than just information sharing. It combines rules to govern tasks and coordinates information flow to support the tasks.

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    Workflow involves the automatic routing of documents to the appropriate users based on business processes. It ensures documents move through the required steps on a set timeline and alerts managers if operations fall behind schedule. Integrating workflow into existing applications may require extensive programming since workflow needs access to individual application routines. Workflow differs from workgroup software by focusing on structured processes rather than just information sharing. It combines rules to govern tasks and coordinates information flow to support the tasks.

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    Workflow involves the automatic routing of documents to the appropriate users based on business processes. It ensures documents move through the required steps on a set timeline and alerts managers if operations fall behind schedule. Integrating workflow into existing applications may require extensive programming since workflow needs access to individual application routines. Workflow differs from workgroup software by focusing on structured processes rather than just information sharing. It combines rules to govern tasks and coordinates information flow to support the tasks.

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    Workflow

    The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow
    is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business
    cycle. The documents may be physically moved over the network or maintained in a single
    database with the appropriate users given access to the data at the required times. Triggers
    can be implemented in the system to alert managers when operations are overdue.

    Workflow Keeps Documents Moving


    The manual flow of documents in an organization is prone to errors. Documents can get lost
    or be constantly shuffled to the bottom of the in-basket. Automating workflow sets timers that
    ensure that documents move along at a prescribed pace and that the appropriate person
    processes them in the correct order.

    Workflow Integration
    Integrating workflow into existing software applications may require extensive
    reprogramming, because although independent workflow software can launch a whole
    application, a workflow system must be able to invoke individual routines within the
    application. As a result, vendors of application software have teamed up with workflow
    vendors to provide the appropriate interfaces and/or they have developed their own workflow
    capability. Workflow standards developed by the Workflow Management Coalition
    (www.wfmc.org) provide interoperability between workflow software and applications as
    well as between different workflow systems (see Wf-XML).

    Workflow Vs. Workgroup

    Workflow software is not the same as workgroup software, otherwise known as groupware.
    Workflow deals with the step-by-step processes, whereas workgroup systems are concerned
    with information sharing and threaded discussions among users.
    Groupware (WorkGroup) Vs. Workflow
    Groupware, or workgroup computing, focuses on the information being processed and
    enabling users to share information. Workflow, on the other hand, emphasizes the
    importance of the process, which acts as a container for the information. Workflow
    combines rules, which govern the tasks performed, and coordinates the transfer of the
    information required to support these tasks. This is "process-centered" rather than
    "information-centered." (Illustration courtesy of Delphi Consulting Group, Inc.)

    Workflow management describes the electronic management of work processes, such as:

    • processing of forms;
    • project management using a computer network and electronic messaging as a base.

    Workflow is the operational aspect of a work procedure: how tasks are structured, who
    performs them, what their relative order is, how they are synchronized, how information
    flows to support the tasks and how tasks are being tracked. As the dimension of time is
    considered in Workflow, Workflow considers "throughput" as a distinct measure. Workflow
    problems can be modeled and analyzed using Petri nets.
    While the concept of workflow is not specific to information technology, support for
    workflow is an integral part of groupware software.

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