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Workflows

What are workflows?

Workflow is the automated movement of documents or items through a sequence of actions or tasks that are related to a business process. Workflows can be used to consistently manage common business processes within an organization by enabling the organization to attach business logic to documents or items in a SharePoint list or library. Business logic is basically a set of instructions that specifies and controls the actions that happen to a document or item.

Why use SharePoint Workflows?

Workflows can streamline the cost and time required to coordinate common business processes, such as project approval or document review, by managing and tracking the human tasks involved with these processes. You can add a workflow to a document library that routes a document to a group of people for approval. When the document author starts this workflow on a document in that library, the workflow creates document approval tasks, assigns these tasks to the workflow participants, and then sends e-mail alerts to the participants with task instructions and a link to the document to be approved. While the workflow is in progress, the workflow owner or the workflow participants can check the Workflow Status page to see which participants have completed their workflow tasks. When the workflow participants complete their workflow tasks, the workflow ends, and the workflow owner is automatically notified that the workflow has completed.

Nintex Workflows

Nintex is a leading global innovator of software products that extend Microsoft technology, building software that bridges the gap between that which can be bought from Microsoft today and common functionality requested by customers – with a passionate commitment to innovation and user experience.
Nintex Workflow Product Features

What are Nintex Workflows?

Nintex Workflow 2007 extends the capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint workflows by providing a web based graphical workflow designer embedded within SharePoint. Nintex Workflow enables all users within a SharePoint environment to have the ability to design, publish, manage and report on SharePoint workflows.

Why use Nintext Workflows?

Nintex Workflow 2007 provides greater power and functionality than SharePoint Designer while maintaining the intuitive usability of the SharePoint interface. It is more affordable and accessible than full-feature BPM products such as K2, while providing enough functionality and extensibility to satisfy all but the most complex process automation requirements.

Nintext Workflow Product Features

Easy to use drag and drop workflow designer
Browser based client (no desktop software required)
Visual workflow progress
Delegation and escalation capability
Scheduled and timed workflows
Rich Notification and approval via E-mail, Instant Messenger and SMS
Rapid approval through Nintex LazyApproval™
Predefined templates for common processes
Deep integration with MOSS 2007/WSS3.0
Automate common SharePoint tasks

Why Hershey Technologies?

With nearly 20 years of knowledge using workflow techniques and building on Windows Communication Foundation, Hershey Technologies can expand the basic SharePoint workflows to encorporate virtually any workflow. With our expertise and partner relationships, we can create complex workflows to improve efficiency, ensure accuracy, increase productivity, and reduce costs.