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- Subject: Re: Any experience with Lotus Notes
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- From: s19184@seb.se (Michael Evans)
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:37:18 +0100
- References: <gate.8sNwXB1w165w@sytex.com>
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- In article <gate.8sNwXB1w165w@sytex.com>, keith@sytex.com (Keith Attenborough)
- writes:
- > I don't have any experience yet, but my organization is working on
- > installing Notes to support all the document form stuff -- papers,
- > memos, position documents, images, etc. we use on a daily basis. One of
- > the key features we were looking for and believe Notes provides is
- > support for workflow management, the ability to use the system to route
- > material to the corrct people for review and editing, then ensuring that
- > it is really those individuals who have done the work. It seems
- > designed to handle those tasks well.
-
- Unless things have changed since autumn 1992, then I am not sure that
- Lotus Notes is designed to handle more formal worksflows well.
-
- We had a good look at the functions and found that it was missing
- monitoring process times, escalation generically through the
- organisation (if he takes too long dealing with this case, signal his
- manager), split & join parallel activities etc.
-
- Of course, we could have implemented these functions, but then it
- would have been OUR implementation, and not the standard Lotus
- implementation which future Notelets would use.
-
- I may be wrong, I which case I am very interested of your experiences,
- or I may have the wrong definition of workflow processing, in which
- case I stand to be corrected.
-
- Regards,
- /Mike
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