About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: ActiveVOS, Activiti (software), Advanced Authoring Format, Anduril (workflow engine), BioExtract, Bioinformatics workflow management systems, Bizagi, Bonita Open Solution, BPEL4People, BPEL script, Business Process Execution Language, Business Process Modeling Language, CA-7 (software), CapExBio, CA IT Process Automation Manager, Comparison of BPEL engines, Database publishing, DIET, Discovery Net, Document automation, Flow Description Markup Language, Forefront Identity Manager, GNU Enterprise, Healthcare workflow, HealthFlow, JBPM, Jbpm5, Kepler scientific workflow system, LONI Pipeline, Marvin L. Manheim Award For Significant Contributions in the Field of Workflow, Marvin Manheim, Neural Workflow, NexusBPM, ONE Automation, Parasoft Concerto, ProcessEdge, Project workforce management, RetroGuide, Runbook, SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, Sydle Seed, Taverna workbench, Tryton, Variable data publishing, VisTrails, Wf-XML, Workflow application, Workflow Management Coalition, Workflow Reference Model, XPDL, Zenon Software. Excerpt: A workflow consists of a sequence connected steps. Emphasis is on the flow paradigm, where each step follows the precedent without delay or gap and ends just before the subsequent step may begin. This concept is related to non overlapping tasks of single resources. It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons, an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. Workflow may be seen as any abstraction of real work. For control purposes, workflow may be a view on real work under a chosen aspect, thus serving as a virtual representation of actual work. The flow being described may refer to a document or product that is being transferred from one step to another. Workflow concepts are closely related to other concepts used to describe organizational structure, such as silos, functions, teams, projects, policies and hierarchies. Workflows may be viewed as one primitive building block of organizations. The relationships among these concepts are described later in this entry. The term workflow is used in computer programming to capture and develop human-to-machine interaction. The concept of workflow is closely related to several fields in operations research and other areas that study the nature of work, either quantitatively or qualitatively, such as artificial intelligence (in particular, the sub-discipline of AI planning) and ethnography. The term workflow is more commonly used in particular industries, such as printing and professional domains, where it may have particular specialized meanings. In the 1980s, the term workflow was first used in its modern form in the software industry by FileNet founders Ted Smith and Ed Miller. The company called its business process automation software "WorkFlo." In 1995, the publishing industry studied how traditional publishing processes could be re-engineered and streamlined into digital processes in order to reduce lagtime, as well as substantial printing and s
