What is a workflow management system?
What is a Workflow?
Workflow is the movement of documents and/or tasks through a work process. More specifically, workflow is the operational aspect of a work procedure:
- How tasks are structured?
- Who performs them?
- What is their relative order?
- How are they synchronized?
- How information flows to support the tasks?
- How tasks are being tracked?
Workflow components:
Single steps or components of a workflow can basically be defined by three parameters:
1. Input description
2. Transformation rules, algorithms
3. Output description
What is a Workflow Management System?
A Workflow Management System is one which provides you a procedural automation of the business process by management of the sequence of work activities.
It is a system that completely defines manages and executes “workflows” through the execution of software whose order of execution is driven by a computer representation of your workflow logic.
I just came across your blog about WorkFlow Management Systems. I am posting more or less about the same subjects so I will keep reading your blog to be challenged by your post. I am curious about your thoughts on the difference between a Workflow Management System and a BPMS (Business Process Management Suite).
With regards,
Paul van Erk
http://sourcelinq.blogspot.com
Paul van Erk
May 22, 2007