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Workflow is the process of automating office tasks. Implementing efficient workflows will increase business productivity. Workflow can be used in every department across your organization. In this video you will see an example of how workflow can improve a common office process. To read more about the benefits of workflow, continue reading below.
Laserfiche Workflow is a flexible, easy-to-use framework for automating and optimizing business processes organization-wide. A key component of the Laserfiche platform, Workflow enables you to automatically route documents, spreadsheets, e-mail messages and other types of content among staff members. Because staff have instant access to the information they need, they work more effectively, complete projects more quickly and make better-informed decisions. These productivity gains rapidly translate into lower overhead costs, more responsive customer service and a stronger competitive edge.
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Design Workflow Rules with Ease
Workflow enables you to translate even the most complex processes into a series of precise steps, each involving the users and activities you specify. Because business processes can vary significantly among industries, we've also designed Workflow to be as flexible as possible. For example, nearly any event in Laserfiche can trigger a workflow, and you can configure the system to perform a number of activities on a document as part of the workflow process, from moving it to a new location to changing its security access to assigning new metadata to it.
The Workflow Designer is an easy-to-use, graphical interface where you build a workflow and define the conditions that must be met in order for a document to move from one step to the next. The Designer's streamlined layout and intelligent design help you work quickly, while its intuitive "top-down" structure makes it easy to identify each step in the workflow. To minimize time spent troubleshooting build-related issues, the Designer automatically alerts you when a workflow is not configured correctly. Once you're satisfied with a workflow, you can activate it with the click of a button. You can also save a workflow as an XML-based file that you can load into other Workflow 8 installations.
Workflow is not only easy to use, it's also easy to deploy and maintain. The Workflow Server can support multiple Laserfiche repositories—although you can also use multiple Workflow Servers to support a single, large repository. This flexible architecture helps you design a system that both fits your existing IT infrastructure and helps you optimize system performance. Also, a separate Windows service, known as the Workflow Subscriber, monitors the Laserfiche repository and notifies the Workflow Server when specified events occur. To make the best use of your current hard- ware, you have the option of installing the Workflow Server and Workflow Subscriber on either the same or different machines.
Many work processes involve multiple line-of-business applications. Because Workflow is built on the Windows Workflow Foundation, you can create a workflow that involves both Laserfiche and your organization's other software systems. For example, you might script a step in a workflow that automatically brings e-mail messages into Laserfiche from the Microsoft® Exchange Server and then archives these messages in a certain folder, routes them to a particular user or takes another action. No matter how complex your business processes may be, you can manage them from a single location— the Workflow Administration Console. Because this console is a Microsoft Management Console™ application, you can snap it into the same enterprise console you use to manage all your organization's Windows-based applications. In this way, Workflow not only helps you automate business processes, but also makes them more transparent, providing you with a singular location from which to monitor and refine your organization's operations.
