What is Workflow?

1. What is Workflow? • Workflow or Business Process Management (BPM) consists of Processes, States and Actions. • A Process (e.g. Customer Order fulfillment) is accomplished by a series of several steps called “States”. (e.g. Order received, fulfilled, shipped, billed, completed) • An “Action” moves a process from one State to another. (Order entry, fulfillment, shipping, billing). The action may be user intervened or automated flow.

2. Ganges Workflow • • Allows quick workflow enabling your existing or new applications • • Gives you complete control into your business process for better collaboration and accountability. • • Lets you rapidly design, change and deploy automated processes with minimal effort.

3. Ganges Workflow Architecture Workflow Designer Any web, windows application built with any development environment Workflow Engine Residing in SQL Server 200x database, along with application database External systems and Databases Workflow Web Services, API SQL Server 200x Database Server

4. Ganges Workflow Engine • Works with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005 database applications. • Easily integrate with external applications or databases in any platform; such as Unix, mainframes. • Ganges Workflow engine is tightly integrated with Microsoft SQL Server. • Ganges Workflow allows creating multiple workflow processes and child-processes.

5. Ganges Workflow Engine • Provides a powerful “rule based” automated flow from one state to another. • Provides tight security on what “action” can be performed by what user • Customizable events allows user to program what is needed to be done when a record reaches a State or when user performs an action. • Events can be programmed in Microsoft .NET languages.

6. Ganges Workflow • Extensive APIs and interfaces are available to integrate with any external application in any platform. • In summary, Ganges Workflow consists of an “Engine” and “developmental platform” to build workflow applications.