AlphaFlow
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AlphaFlow is the next generation workflow engine for Zope. It is designed to be as simple, flexible and customizable as possible.
AlphaFlow is a high-grade, Open Source workflow engine developed by gocept, a German company founded in 2000. It features a powerful activity-based workflow concept that also allows document oriented processes to be easily modelled.
Alphaflow comes with a large library of reusable components including special activities for document reviews, task assignments, time based process control, email notifications, complex routing activities and more.
Additionally AlphaFlow is fully integrated into Plone, allowing rapid creation of powerful workflow applications within the existing Plone framework. The automatic UI generation allows you to have prototype application ready within a matter of hours and a complete application available in a few days.
Workflow systems exist in a complex world. Many standards and standardisation processes, working groups and products are available. Many of them are more complicated than necessary without fulfilling the promised goals.
Therefore AlphaFlow features a simple model that describes the cooperation of specialized activities on a level that is easy to understand yet powerful enough to meet the most complex business requirements.
Making your Plone objects able to use AlphaFlow is easily done within a matter of minutes.
One major point of using a workflow engine over hard coding business processes is the ability to easily make modifications to a system when business rules change.
Therefore your application becomes more flexible when you model a process with AlphaFlow and it allows you to reuse special functionality that has already been developed.
Custom activities can create interfaces to external systems like payment providers, logistic partners as well as other parts of your Zope application.
AlphaFlow is designed to be used in high capacity environments. It is in production use as intranets with multiple thousands of objects and several hundred users.
Administrators and developers are supported by a powerful workflow manager which allows the manual inspection of exception states and reasons, to take care of special situations and continue after error situations.
AlphaFlow features an easy XML-based process definition language (ALF) for defining and importing your workflows into AlphaFlow applications.
To allow excellent customer communication and rapid development of workflows AlphaFlow comes with a browser-based visual editor that lets you modify your workflows visually.
Contact us at workflow@redomino.com to get more information about this product.
Alphaflow comes with a large library of reusable components including special activities for document reviews, task assignments, time based process control, email notifications, complex routing activities and more.
Additionally AlphaFlow is fully integrated into Plone, allowing rapid creation of powerful workflow applications within the existing Plone framework. The automatic UI generation allows you to have prototype application ready within a matter of hours and a complete application available in a few days.
Simplicity
Workflow systems exist in a complex world. Many standards and standardisation processes, working groups and products are available. Many of them are more complicated than necessary without fulfilling the promised goals.
Therefore AlphaFlow features a simple model that describes the cooperation of specialized activities on a level that is easy to understand yet powerful enough to meet the most complex business requirements.
Making your Plone objects able to use AlphaFlow is easily done within a matter of minutes.
Flexibility
One major point of using a workflow engine over hard coding business processes is the ability to easily make modifications to a system when business rules change.
Therefore your application becomes more flexible when you model a process with AlphaFlow and it allows you to reuse special functionality that has already been developed.
Custom activities can create interfaces to external systems like payment providers, logistic partners as well as other parts of your Zope application.
Reliability
AlphaFlow is designed to be used in high capacity environments. It is in production use as intranets with multiple thousands of objects and several hundred users.
Administrators and developers are supported by a powerful workflow manager which allows the manual inspection of exception states and reasons, to take care of special situations and continue after error situations.
Visual Editor
AlphaFlow features an easy XML-based process definition language (ALF) for defining and importing your workflows into AlphaFlow applications.
To allow excellent customer communication and rapid development of workflows AlphaFlow comes with a browser-based visual editor that lets you modify your workflows visually.
More Information
Contact us at workflow@redomino.com to get more information about this product.
