The Business Challenge

The ways in which the elements of modern business processes interact are increasingly complex. People, enterprise business systems, and content must work seamlessly together in order to deliver on the promises of optimal productivity, improved business relationships, and quicker decision-making timeframes.

What most organizations have in common is that business process engineers and content owners lack a flexible, yet simple-to-use solution for defining and managing workflows throughout all stages of the content lifecycle.

Hummingbird Enterprise 2004 - WorkFlow

Hummingbird Enterprise 2004 - WorkFlow empowers business owners and content managers to easily define, apply and reuse business logic and processes providing them with the ability to generate cohesive interactions among people, business systems, and content - across the Hummingbird Enterprise 2004 content management system and beyond.

	Hummingbird Enterprise 2004 — WorkFlow Checklist
	Attach structured and unstructured content from Hummingbird Enterprise 2004 repository or other repositories
	Easily graphically design workflow processes without the need for IT involvement
	Control, monitor and manage all instantiated workflow processes
	Securely track, audit, and store processes and the resulting documents, records and other content objects
	Choose from dozens of pre-defined steps to: lock/unlock, move, delete, publish, categorize, modify and update documents; schedule, run, refresh, and modify reports; escalate; branch parallel steps; set rendezvous; set notification and deadlines, etc.
	Include external participants outside the organization while maintaining control of the process
	Automatically trigger processes based on content lifecycle events like check-in, publish, dispose
	Extend Hummingbird Enterprise 2004 processes using standard-based integrations to third party applications and systems
	Assign, monitor and complete tasks and related content in a choice of interfaces — via e-mail, browser, instant messaging alert, mobile device, or portalsize and sender