Review of Universal Workflow Engine
- tech2blog.com
- Jan 12, 2014
- 2 min read
It’s a great confusion to get the idea of the current status of the work and to determine what to do next. In all the business processes, the web has become a major platform to send the information up to the individuals. This has led to the need for a system that will guide you all throughout your business work. There is a need for the system which will work automatically in the business applications.

All this is done with the help of a workflow engine. It can be defined as a software program that handles all the computerized work automatically. All the tasks that you need to perform are coupled in a row in sequence. This is done to ensure the proper and automatic functioning of the synergetic work processes. The universal workflow engine is brought to you by Comindware using elastic data technology and it can manage almost any workflow process whether it is related to finance or software development, marketing management or any other field.
A workflow system examines all the events such as documents and works on them as instructed by the computer processes. The actions to be performed on the documents are decided by the computer program. It can be anything like adding some data to the document or saving the document and sending any email to the users.
Functions
The main function of the workflow engine is to expedite the flow of events, tasks, and information. The first function of the workflow engine is the verification of the current status which includes checking for the validity of the command before executing the task. Once the valid command has been found the next step is to check for the authority of the users. The next step is performed if the current user is authorized to execute the task.
This is done to ensure the security in the business applications only those users can accomplish a task that has been given permission. Once the authorization has been checked, the next step is the execution of the condition script. This includes the evaluation in two main steps.
A sort of if-else statement is executed in this step. A condition is kept as a reference and if the condition evaluates to true then the workflow engine will perform the next task and finally when the execution has completed a message of success is given. But, if the condition evaluates to false then the task is terminated and it will return back an error message and return back to the condition where it was before some time.
So in this way, a workflow engine uses the technique of task allocation to different users with the help of software to facilitate the flow of tasks and events. It distributes the work among different executors in such a way that there is data communication between the different participants which is a great advantage. There can be any number of arbitrary steps to execute the main function. It also takes care of the fact that the task is given to the right person and not randomly distributed.
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