Workflow Technology In The Universal Management Information System Study

As one of the new technologies that develop most rapidly recent years, Workflow technology is the key technology that assists enterprise business process realize modeling, simulation, analysis, optimization, management and integration, and finally automation. Adopting workflow management facilitates enterprise configure personnel organization according to main business process instead of functions traditionally, sequentially shorten main business process time greatly and improve response capability to market change.However, the realization solution of workflow system will be quite different according to diverse developing environment. In practice, we discover that utilizing exiting mechanism realize workflow can simplify whole system if the infrastructure is good enough.This paper first introduces the origin and definition of workflow technology and Workflow Management System (WfMS). Then it comes to workflow modeling methods and presents our own workflow modeling method in which business process functions in information system are described by creating views from different angles. Later this paper describes the application of workflow technology in GMISA (General Management Information System Architecture, a software architecture of Management Information System developed by us) and the improvement made to GMISA's authority mechanism. Unlike other distribution-based WfMS products, the working mechanism of workflow discussed in this paper is easier and more practical. In the last part of this paper, an instance of our workflow model is provided.