Research Of The General WorkFlow Management System

ABSTRACT　With the development of the OA and e-business, workflow technology has been a new hotspot in the area of computer application. The main aim of this technology is to collaborate the information resource and the human resource with the manage process, make them implemented in turn. It is very important to study the technology in-depth, since it can significantly improve the information standard and operation efficiency of enterprises, hence make them more competitive. In this paper, the evolution of workflow technology is introduced. After that, the current situation of research in workflow area is overviewed, including workflow definition, workflow model, workflow implementation technology, and workflow transaction management. On this base, this paper researches how to develop a general workflow management system by the standard of MFMC(Workflow Management Coalition) according the requirement of the native OA and e-business using. This paper also gives an original model fitting to the real estate appraisal process.