工作流管理联盟工作流标准-工作流协作(接口4)(en).pdf

Workflow Management Coalition

Reference Model

Interface 4

Workflow Interoperability

The key to E-Commerce and to process scalability

Many businesses and IT communities have profited from the power of

redesigned business processes that leverage workflow and document

management technologies to automate and empower their workforce.

Organisations are now faced with the opportunity of creating an extended

work on this topic, and the result is

the WfMC Workflow

Interoperability Definition. The

WfMC first defined a Workflow

Reference model with five

Interfaces. Then teams were

assigned to each. Interface 4

Workflow Instance

Interface 3

see that process-centric workflow engines will be the basis for the next

generation for electronic commerce, and believe that it will replace many EDI

E-commerce based on workflow engines, provides: -

authors and the present range of workflow products meet

almost any need with varying efficiency, because of the

different approaches that have been taken. Buyers of

this technology are looking to get the best product for

I/F4 will enable customers to buy ‘best of breed’ products

performance. Workflow interoperability enables a system

designer to identify transaction intensive work and pass it

implemented.

Islands of