Workflow is a TOOL which allows you to create, view and modify you business process.It is very simillar to drawing a flowchart of what are all steps has to be followed once some standard event occures in the Oracle Application. This may be any event like creation of Purchase Order, Or entry of a sales order in Order Management.
First of all lets have a overview on the components of Workflow:Following components all togather makes a tool called Workflow Builder.# Workflow Engine: is embabed in Oracle database and is responsible to actually process the activities in workflow process one by one.# Business Event System : is a application service which listens the standard event generated in an application. It uses the Event manager to register these events and allow you to provide a subscription to these events. Subscription may incluse a call to any procedure/function or may be a workflow name to be launched.# Notification System : not only helps to include the valid users in your organization to whom workflow may need to send the notifications on any of the piont in the business flow but also it sends these notifications to these users whenever specified. Every notification is attached to a message which contains the required information to be deliverd at that piont of time in the flow.# Workflow Monitor : This is a window embaded in Oracle Application supporting Java using which you can trace the execution of the workflow process.
And following is the details of all the components that we will use to create/build our Business process in WF Builder.
The INFORMATION and AUTOMATION is the blood of todays E-Business. May it be any field of business you need to have INFORMATION being delivered to the RIGHT person in REAL TIME through proper ROUTE as per business processand according to the RULES and regulations of the company.
Here comes the need of such a tool which can fulfill all your requirement mentioned above.
And Oracle workflow does these things with perfection.
In tecnical terms you can say that the Oracle Workflow is a tool using which you can
DEFINE, DEVELOPE, MODIFY and most importatnt AUTOMATE the business process.
This business process once built in the form of workflow process will be launched [fired, triggerd]on occurance of some EVENT or situation. Once launched it will follow the path specified while designing.And will perform all the operations one by one, will deliver the appropriate information to approprate person as per the business requirement.
