Let us first let's take a look at what process management. Everyone knows that all kinds of processes will often be encountered in business and personal life. It is constructed from all kinds of business processes to integrate, and everyone has a total of everywhere. Known. For example, when we need to purchase materials, we need the corresponding procurement process. There is also a corresponding sales process when product sales. We must carry out financial reimbursery to conduct a corresponding financial approval process. Enterprise processes and corporate production and operation activities are closely related. Although the process is more important, many processes are often used to the class in accordance with the daily operation, so they are not valid for management. These make our business processes cannot be executed efficiently and cannot track the status of business processes and results. In the current increasing year of this market, the business environment in which the company has also passed quietly. As the needs of customers who just said that the host said is the momentary change, and the life cycle of the product is constantly shortement, and the technology is constantly innovating. Enterprises need to survive in such a competitive and transformed external environment, and constantly adjust and optimize their own business processes. Reconstruct and reconstruct the process. Using information technology can accelerate the reconstruction of enterprise processes and achieve effective and orderly process management. From the way, it can be seen that the management includes the process of design, process analysis, process optimization, and reconstruction of the process. Enterprises need efficient process management not only requires a good process, but also we will give up early organizational methods and labor methods. Traditional labor division of labor theory will be divided into a functional department. Enterprise processes are split into a variety of simple tasks in one organization, and this organization can be a department of our company, and it is also possible that it is also one of them. And according to these tasks, the department managers will focus mainly in the efficiency of the sector, and neglect the overall goal of the company, and cannot form effective support for the overall goal of the company. In order to enable our business process to perform efficiently, it is possible to cross the department's obstacles to cross the gap between enterprises. The organizational structure of the company should be flat and netcirculated from the region, and the traditional-oriented tissue structure is facing the process. The organizational structure changes. Therefore, the competitiveness of the company is reflected in the process, which is reflected in management ideas. The organization's establishment should also be adapted to the process changes. For the relationship between information technology and enterprise management, people are no longer unfamiliar. Today, in today's information, most companies, especially those with certain scale, have carried out the first round of information construction. For example, they have established sales systems, SCMs, financial systems, OA systems, and more, which are generally limited to solving specific affairs within the enterprise, and facing corporate internal functions rather than market-oriented systems. Each business process may cause a large change in the program structure, and the stiff architecture increases the complexity of the system. The system's flexibility is the flexibility of the system. In terms of end users, the lag of business process changes seriously affects market response. Speed, lost some opportunities. For business operators and developers, they caught them into the mud. In the past, we have deep understanding in the development of ERP. Therefore, the flexibility of the process is also required in the new generation ERP system. It is these requirements that we need to interchange some information technology and management integration to solve these problems, and workflow technology is a good solution.
Workflow is a business process consisting of tasks. According to a series of business rules, communicate and execute between different participants in different participants, according to a series of business rules. These participants can be specific people can also use the application system. That is to say to realize the automation and semi-activation of business processes on your computer. It has three characteristics. The first can easily realize visual modeling of business processes, and second can automatically run the process. The third must be able to monitor the process in a comprehensive manner. Workflow technology is located in the software architecture, divided into application software layers, advanced middleware layers, basic middleware layers, system software layers, and workflow systems in advanced middleware layers, if the system software layer, the foundation The part is the foundation, and the advanced middleware layer is to build a channel, and the workflow is the core component in this channel. Currently, the proportion of enterprise processes in the world has relatively low, more than 62% of companies realize 25% of process digitization, and in this 25% process digitization, these processes are lack of flexibility, that is, our process is curing in us. The application system is applied. Therefore, give our workflow a large number of market opportunities, and its market space should be said to be very huge. In China, according to technical information, in the future, more and more complex application software systems will be established on the business management process platform, and we can think that workflow is also one. In the management software field, it will even set off a peak that migrates from the software's basic building platform to the application process management platform. It is expected that mainstream management software in 2005 will be based on business process management platforms. Then, compared with the operating system and the software infrastructure platform, the market of my country's business process management platform should say that they have just started, that is, in recent years. The Bathing Information also believes that my country's process management platform market will be further developed in 2004 and entered a rapidly developed track. There are more and more manufacturers enter this field, and more and more research institutions discuss topics. The Bathing Communications at the same time believes that the 2005 business process management platform will be fully accepted in the market, and its total market scale can reach 2.5 billion yuan.
Workflow product components
It mainly includes development tool sets, core operations, management supply sets, and development tools are used to rapid design, establish workflow models, or modeling business processes. And verify the effectiveness and rationality of the model. Running the server is the core part of the workflow, providing the user with a workflow running environment, so that the execution of the business process is possible. The workflow engine is mainly responsible for the scheduling of the process, that is, interpretation and execution of the relationship between nodes. The rules engine mainly performs business logic within the establishment of the node. The application integrated engine is mainly integrated into an enterprise-oriented enterprise that is integrated into business-oriented applications. The management tool set is process monitoring, process analysis, and data management, etc.
Workflow operation mechanism
Workflow operation is divided into two parts, first modeling, then running, process modeling through process design tools (image, mouse drag) design flow, and then publish it into the engine. When a certain condition is satisfied, such as a specific E-mail or scheduled a process, of course, can be done by a call of the APL, the corresponding model instance is initially, and the corresponding model instance is generated, and Flow Engine Management Model Example, definition process based on the topology of the previously defined process. If you need some tasks that you need to participate, we define these tasks as manual activities, which is pushed by the workflow engine to a queue, which we use it as a list of work. In the work list, you can perform, access, submit this task in the list of objects. If the task type is automatic, our work repair engine is scheduled by accessing the workflow engine. In the entire process, people with certain power can monitor the execution of the entire process through the process of the process, to track the history data of the process. Let's take a look at the application of workflow, workflow can actually be used as an application platform for enterprise process automation, the development platform of enterprise information systems, and the integrated platform of enterprise application systems, can be widely used in all walks of life. For example, our e-government industry, e-commerce and enterprise information management system, enterprise process reconstruction, ERP, enterprise application process multiple areas, this is independent of industry applications, as long as there is a process of workflows can be applied . Workflow management system implementation
It is different from the ordinary enterprise management system, and its implementation is the process of continuous looping and improvement, which also makes our workflow modification system implementation applications in flexibility and scalability far more than normal management information systems. The specific implementation step first we analyze the existing business processes, business rules, and management regulations, summarize the model of an enterprise existing business, using process modeling tools, organizing existing workflows, then workflow Simulate, find some problems by simulating. Improve the process by analyzing the company's strategic objectives to obtain an optimized business process work model. Introducing this model to actual operations, also can also get the actual production results. We conducted data analysis of these operations, or found problems in the actual operation in the production environment. For example, a task junction is executed very long, we can find a problem with time-based analysis reports. It can also be performed based on cost-based statistics. Our goal is to further optimize or improve work models. After improvement, we will make the simulation and operation of the process. After the process simulation is running, we still have the process analysis, constantly push, and finally find an optimal business model. What are the benefits from us to us after this work? There are mainly the following points, the first can find business bottlenecks in time, and conduct effective guidance and improve business processes. It can also increase the entire work efficiency, effectively shorten the processing time of the business, avoiding the confusion of the conventional processing method to the business process, reducing the principled errors caused by human factors and the resulting loss. At the same time, it also enhances the processing capabilities of the operations of each process, making the operation of the business more smoothly. The workflow management system can also be used as a data acquisition end of performance appraisal, which is conducive to the assessment of the business and the assessment of performance. At the same time, its high-efficiency business handling also helps to improve customer service levels and business competitiveness. The purpose of implementing the workflow management system is to improve the flexibility of enterprise business processing, and can continue to improve their business processes or business processes based on market transformations. Eventually improve the response ability of the entire market.
Let's take a look at the standardization performance of workflows. At present, there are two major workflow organizations, which are WFMC and BPMI. WFMC was established in 1993 to formulate workflow standards, and also formed some open standards, such as workflow reference models and five interface models in 95. BPMI has also launched some open standards in 2001, such as business process modeling languages and BPQL, and more. There are currently no workflow products standards and standards, and workflow technology is in practical use in China. Some open standards formulated by the International Standards Organization cannot adapt to national conditions due to differences in the management of Chinese and Western corporate management. For example, in some process mode, due to the management of some foreign companies, the process is quite standardized, fixed, and domestic enterprise management is relatively low, and the process has some random or random, process mode requires some more flexible . For example, in e-government, some tasks should be returned to revocation, which is not in international standards, so it is necessary to develop some standards in accordance with national conditions, and also consider the international standards.
Main research direction of workflow technology
One is the theoretical basis, one is to implement technology, one is actual application. Theoretical foundation is mainly focused on architecture, model representation, definition language. Implementation technology is mainly cause characteristics, software technology, simulation analysis. Finally, thank you for your guests, thanks to CCID, I am very happy to participate in this event, I wish the General Assembly a complete success.
