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- From: jcarroll@jacc.com (Jim Carroll)
- Reply-To: jcarroll@jacc.com
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: Re: Any experience with Lotus Notes
- Message-ID: <7-PCNews-124beta@jacc.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 12:0:46 GMT
- Organization: J.A.CarrollConsulting
- References: <gate.8sNwXB1w165w@sytex.com> <1993Jan25.223718.1@seb.se>
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- s19184@seb.se (Michael Evans @ S-E-Banken, Sweden) once wrote....
- >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.
- >
-
- I'm very intrigued by the components of workflow that you mention; such
- as monitoring process times, escalation etc. in the paragraph above. I would
- be very interested in a list of such issues, i.e that would make up a
- full and complete workflow system. If you have any references to articles
- that refer to such components as well, that would be most useful
-
- Are these things well defined, or are they still being defined as worklow/
- rules based processing continues to mature...?
-
- jc
-
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