Workflow Option 
The growing pressure of increased competition and the fast moving pace of modern business require enterprises to be both effic ient and effective. Enterprises achieve this through automation of their business processes. The Hyperwave Workflow Option (HWF) enables and accelerates the introduction and optimization of business process automation and by doing so enables organizations to undertake business process improvement initiatives.
The Collaborative Process Management Solution
The Hyperwave Workflow Option extends the Hyperwave Collaborative
Information Management (CIM) platform through the introduction of an effective workflow engine.
Using this engine, information can be passed through a business process and revised, approved and
released using an automated environment. The Hyperwave Workflow Option provides powerful process
management tools, including the ability to perform parallel processes and control complex conditional
process flows.
Within process flows, information can be interactively supplemented or modified to provide further detail and value to the entire process. The addition of the Hyperwave Workflow Option to the Hyperwave Collaborative Information Management (CIM) platform enables business processes to be applied to any type of content managed by the Hyperwave platform, including complete directory structures, for example during a purchasing process, coordinating shipping of products or managing distribution of information.

The Hyperwave Workflow Option introduces Business Process Management to the Hyperwave solutions and applications. 100% Web-based, it enables everyone in the organization to create and manage process definitions, initiate business cases and to work on tasks in an easy and intuitive way. By extending Hyperwave's fine-granular access rights system with a dynamic role model, ease of use could be achieved while retaining a very high standard of security and access control.
The creation, administration and modification of process definitions are made simple through the use of the integrated graphical process modeling tool. The Hyperwave Workflow Option enables the modeling and management of all business critical enterprise activities.
Features & Functionality
Environment
- Seamless integration in the Hyperwave Collaborative Information Management (CIM) Platform
- Fully web browser driven user interface
- No client installation necessary
- Role based Workflow
- Dynamic rights assignment
Modeling
- Graphical Designer with Drag and Drop functionality
- Process Definition Management to easily create and maintain different versions of workflow definitions
- Forms/forms editor
Routing
- Support of complex, also parallel routing scenarios
- Dynamic Decision Management
- Milestones make sure that deadlines are met
- Role and Task Assignment at definition or start case time
- System Tasks for "automated" tasks
- Delegate and "out of office" functionality
Security
- Audit Trails for all cases ensure tractability
- Version Control for routed documents
- Dynamic access control of sections within forms
- Adherence to and/or dynamic adjustment of authorizations during the process
Miscellaneous
- Personal task lists and open case lists for all participants
- XML based process definition format
- Integration ability of other applications
- Email and/or Portal notifications
- "Case Dropboxes" trigger the beginning of a process
