Organizations benefit greatly by having processes "instantiated" with software. But often, many business process software products are are too big for the job or too small. Or, they are too complex and structured or too simple. Now, with CorasWorks on SharePoint you have a comprehensive, flexible way to address all sizes and types of business processes within a single workplace. From, small ad hoc workflows for individual items up to comprehensize work streams that define and control how information flows across departments and divisions - you now have the power of choice.

This starter set of Business Processes focuses on approval processes. They show you different designs and scenarios. The common business processes of these applications show you how you can use real-time views, ad hoc user actions, user driven email notification, content email noticifcation, back-end workflow triggers, or, broad cross-workplace workstreams that move and transform information, in any combination to meet your business process needs. Using CorasWorks, views and activity related to any business process can be distributed across the workplace allowing users to work from whereever they prefer and yet participate in structured business processes.

Highlights

• Customizable views that show real-time activity based upon any type of content.
• Customizable actions to automate approvals, email notifications, and drive the flow of work across your applications.
• Ability to drive business processes of database items, documents, and full featured forms.
• Ability to distribute views and actions from these applications to anywhere in your workplace, thus, allowing users to integrate their part of the process into the user interface where they work.
• Out of the box integration of applications with Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation allowing you to configure custom events.
• Ability to configure customized outbound notifications based upon events.
• Ability to relate activities to single items, such as documents, events, and discussions related to a policy.
• Ability to design broad busienss processes that drive information across applications.
• Ability to design distributed applications where users can enter items and kick off processes from anywhere in the workplace, yet, you can manage the application in a central location.

The following starter set of Business Process solutions are included in the Workplace Suite. To learn about them and try them out online, visit the CorasWorks Showroom.

Business Processes
Expense Approvals	A forms based application that provides for multiple approvals by managers. Ability to distribute manager views to where managers work based upon department, subject, amount, etc.
Expense Approvals - International	Enhanced version of this application, showing time of submittals in time zones on local user.
Policy Approval	A form based solution with views that are updated real-time as policies move through a process. Ability to distribute views to managers where they work.
Training Approval/Evaluation Tracking	A simple form based training approval process including training survey tracking.
Vacation Approval	A simple process for the approval process for vacation. Ability for users to submit from where they work and for managers to have views of vacation requests where they work. Yet, the vacation requests are centralized.
Work Order Approval	A centralized work order application with customizable actions to drive the activity. The ability to distribute the front end of the application to anywhere in the workplace.