Design, Realization And Application Of Workflow Management System

With the market competition getting more and more intensely, enterprise often have to change their own business pattern for farther development. To match the trend of the development of the enterprise, it is a good solution that uses workflow management system to manage enterprise's business-flow during the software development.Workflow management system is a fast evolving technology, which is increasingly being exploited by business. Its primary characteristic is the automation of the processes.This article summarizes the correlative concept about workflow technology and workflow management system firstly, studies deeply about the reference model proposed by Workflow Management Coalition(WfMC) and the other correlative workflow productions. And then, sums up the basis modular of workflow management system according to the analysis of reference model and correlative productions and gets the total architecture involving workflow management platform and workflow engine. Then we design and realize workflow management platform and workflow engine. Finally, detail introduces how to integrade this system with the application system to support software development. And analyzes the advantage of using this system based on an example system named Finacial Audit System I have taken part in.