Workflow Technology From 50000 Feet
Workflow is software that automates process coordination.
Consider a mortgage application: there may be several teams involved in approving or rejecting each application. The process may have many steps and several decision points.
Workflow can be used to ask the right people at the right time to do the right task.
Workflow has the capability to:
- assign work to people
- change process flow based on human choices
- automate process steps
- change process flow based on data in a document or database
Workflow Functionality
Workflow allows designers to build processes with a series of steps. Typically, workflow supports functionality such as:
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