Workflow at its simplest 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 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 graph-based formalisms like Petri nets.
While the concept of workflow is not specific to information technology, support for workflow is an integral part of document management and imaging software.
Distinction can be made between "scientific" and "business" workflow paradigms. While the former is mostly concerned with throughput of data through various algorithms, applications and services, the latter concentrates on scheduling task executions, including dependencies which are not necessarily data-driven and may include human agents.
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AIS SIGPAM - Special Interest Group on Process Automation and Management of the Association for Information Systems.
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BPMI - Business Process Management Initiative - Industry organization that endeavors to standardize the management of business processes that span multiple applications, corporate departments, and business partners. Developers of BPML, Business Process Markup Language. Part of OMG, the Object Management Group since 07/2005.
e-workflow: the workflow portal - Provides news, links, web sites, case studies, white papers in the areas of business processes and workflow.
ebPML.org - Overview of current standards in the workflow and web services choreography field. Contains white papers and op-ed pieces, as well as links to research and standardization groups. Maintained by Conrad Bock and Jean-Jacques Dubray.
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The Workflow Management Coalition - Founded in August 1993, is a non-profit, international organization of workflow vendors, users, analysts and university/research groups. Mission is to promote and develop the use of workflow through the establishment of standards for software terminology, interoperability and connectivity between workflow products.
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WARIA, the Workflow And Reengineering International Association - Industry association that provides networking opportunities for users, consultants, and vendors of workflow products. Provides education and training and publishes annual book series.
Web and Flo - Specialises in workflow and business process management solutions.
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Workflow Research Forums - Online discussion forum for Business Process Management, workflow automation and related topics. Host for discussion forums associated with the WfMC and SIGPAM.
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