Rules and Routing Definition Features and Functions

• Accesses data from external applications or databases from within the workflow process at run-time and uses that data to dynamically feed routing decisions


• Defines the logic that governs the process, as well as the business rules and routing logic within the workflow product


• Serial, conditional, parallel, and rendezvous (i.e., several distinct roles or activities merging into one at a specific point in the process) routing


• Routing and business decisions based on a combination of complex user-defined conditions or complex Boolean expressions


• Repetition of completed activities and backtracking to specific activities on an as-needed, variable basis, such as the rerouting of work-items to activities which have already been performed in the event of a rework


• Defines the business rules and the routing logic in the process through graphical, drag-and-drop facilities


• Defines the business rules and the routing logic in the process through embedded (own scripting language) or external (callable UNIX or C scripts) scripting