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CTO Tuesdays #18: Handling approvals by email in business processes

March 31st, 2010 by Alex Neihaus

Episode 18 of CTO Tuesdays, the BPMS podcast, covers using email for simpler workflows. Michael Rowley compares and contrasts using worklist management versus email for certain kinds of tasks and makes recommendations on when to use a BPMS’s worklist capabilities and when email might be acceptable. A sample application is demonstrated that shows using email-based workflow for a very simple vacation/time-off approval process.

Be sure to join us live for CTO Tuesdays every Tuesday at noon ET, 9am PT, 16:00 GMT. Register here: http://www.activevos.com/ctot. Next week’s topic (CTO Tuesdays #19 for April 6, 2010) will be “Using URNs to avoid hard-coding service locations.”

If you watch the replay of #18, you’ll see that Michael is using URNs in the most classical way: to map logical names in the business process to physical URLs in the real world. Based on the feedback we got about this, Michael has decided to devote an entire episode to URNs in business processes.


 
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2 Responses to “CTO Tuesdays #18: Handling approvals by email in business processes”

  1. Why URNs are used in process applications | VOSibilities Says:
    April 7th, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    [...] week on CTOT: Rowley completes the story arc he started on CTOT #18 (using email-based approvals for processes) and which continued in CTOT #19 with a discussion of [...]

  2. REST (representational state transfer) in business processes (BPM) | VOSibilities Says:
    April 15th, 2010 at 2:18 am

    [...] a “trilogy” of sorts that started with CTOT #18 and continued in CTOT #19, Michael Rowley covers the concepts — and politics — behind [...]

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