LANSA Workflow Framework

The LANSA Workflow Framework is a robust solution for automating and monitoring business processes. This highly configurable database driven application offers by varying degrees, depending on customer needs, key checks and balances, forward and escalation, security and administration and integration capabilities with existing client applications.

The workflow application can be tailored to fit an organization’s unique needs and integration requirements – including the whole workflow life cycle of event initiation, workflow enactment, as well as event notification, latency monitoring, document management and tight integration with other business application processes and data. This architecture provides the ability to make client-specific customizations of the general-purpose workflow activities with minimal effort.

The LANSA Workflow Framework is a Visual LANSA Framework
solution that can be tailored to fit an organization's needs.

Benefits to automating workflow include:

Centralized management and visibility into business process performance
Improved exception handling – resolve bottlenecks in the process
Decreased redundancy
Improved interaction between people and data
Regulatory compliance – audit trail of actions taken
Improved revenues and cash flow
Increased speed to market
Reduced administration costs

Workflow can be implemented in multiple and varied situations:

Applications forms processing
Travel expense approval – improves remote employee reimbursement
P.O. or P.O. requisition review/approvals
Product engineering change – automates information gathering and approval
Customer or HR data management – automates new and change process; credit limits, key contacts, etc.
New item process – automates multi-department input and approval before ERP/Manufacturing system input
Customer Service inquiries – records and routes to appropriate staff for investigation/resolution

What are the features?

The workflow management system includes the following core elements:

Ability to create and configure flexible workflow processes and settings for simple or complex steps, with multiple branching
Enables subsequent checklist of activity within each workflow step
Processes can be enabled for either parallel or sequential single, group, or multi-tiered approval
Batch workflow steps to enable specific scheduling of work, as well as more efficient processing of common activities
Multi-tiered processes that can accommodate interim steps to run sequential or parallel activities, enabling simultaneous tasks to be completed in parallel
Role-based routing and task transfers of workflow
Task status indicators to flag processes that have various levels of urgency
Intuitive and quick workflow process creation, including copying of previously built processes
Configurable email notification and reminder capability
Automated workflow escalation and notification after a configurable period of latency
Process administration to do work list, which can show hierarchy of tasks by role, then user
Administrator task delegation and transfer capabilities

Additional features include:

Integration flexibility to other applications
Working days calculations
Control of access to sensitive data based on user role levels
Audit logging, enabling analysis of data over date, time, user and the history of all steps made in the workflow
Ability to consume standard BPMN business process models developed by third-party software translating the XML into database structures
Automated document generation based on configurable and predefined templates and supporting Data Mapping Template Wizard

About the LANSA CodeStart Program

CodeStart applications, frameworks and modules are licensed on an as-is basis with the source code included. There are no warranty or ongoing software maintenance fees or upgrades for these solutions. However, LANSA Professional Services provides implementation and technical support for the CodeStart applications on a billable time and material basis.