Li Weiping
ABSTRACT
Workflow is an important technology for process automation and was used in application systems for quite a while. The concept of Software as a Service (SaaS) is becoming popular in recent years. Workflow is considered a major technology in SaaS software. Usually the SaaS software is running in a multi-tenancy enabled service environment and there may exist many end users for one particular application. Thus raise some new challenges for the workflow system, which acts as an underlying middleware supporting the business process in an application system. The new features for workflow model, workflow engine, and workflow time management are discussed in this paper, which we are not mean to provide the resolutions but rather indicate the key questions. These features we believe will help enhance the performance of the workflow management system and hence perform well in the SaaS software.
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Index Terms
- An analysis of new features for workflow system in the SaaS software
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