Managing Workflow with SharePoint Server 2007 Office SharePoint 2007 is tightly integrated with email and web browsers which simplifies interaction between people with content process and business data. It also has out of box workflows for initiating ,tracking and reviewing common business activities such as document review ,tracking status, authorization ,signature collection . The organizations can easily modify these out of box workflows or design their own workflow process by using familiar Microsoft tools such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (the next generation Microsoft Office FrontPage) or Microsoft Visual Studio development system.
Do We Still Need Workflow solutions?
Does Office SharePoint 2007 have wiped out the need of workflow solutions? The answer is “No”. Let’s see why?The workflow created inside SharePoint designer are not reusable and bound to list. The conditional logic that can be applied to workflows is limited. There is no ability to debug. The escalation of the processes cannot be configured in the workflow which typically means that if there is one manager which has to approve leave and if he is absent you cannot timestamp the process to go to next level of senior manager for approval after specified period of time. The designing of multi-step workflow with visual studio is difficult. The robust audit and metric data has to be buildup .Moreover the integration with other platforms must be built from scratch.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
BPM and Web based Deployment
Business organizations are increasingly relying on virtual project teams spanning across globe for their processes to be implemented. BPMN standards provide them with standardized notation to work at different location and collaborate to bring the desired results.
The success of the BPM in a global organization depends on the ease of execution of modeled processes ,workflows ,business rules and their analysis and monitoring .The deployment of BPM tools for an Organization can be web based or client server type.
BPM and Web based Deployment
Global Business organization consists of business ecosystem with different processes more than often having their own regional business flavor. For example the compliance of rules and regulations are different for different countries. Now In this scenario the process has to be modified regionally to adapt to the business environment of operation territory. The business process modeling tools is hosted on web then the standard business process can be modified sitting in the headquarters offering effective control over the processes and the way business in run .This is one single example if we try to visualize in context of different business verticals like banking ,finance ,healthcare ,SCM etc we will find many such examples .
The success of the BPM in a global organization depends on the ease of execution of modeled processes ,workflows ,business rules and their analysis and monitoring .The deployment of BPM tools for an Organization can be web based or client server type.
BPM and Web based Deployment
Global Business organization consists of business ecosystem with different processes more than often having their own regional business flavor. For example the compliance of rules and regulations are different for different countries. Now In this scenario the process has to be modified regionally to adapt to the business environment of operation territory. The business process modeling tools is hosted on web then the standard business process can be modified sitting in the headquarters offering effective control over the processes and the way business in run .This is one single example if we try to visualize in context of different business verticals like banking ,finance ,healthcare ,SCM etc we will find many such examples .
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