Research on OSWorkflow-based workflow management system integration strategy

Abstract

With the workflow technology's gradual maturenient and development, it has brought a great deal of system's flexibility in their business processing, the multi-level interaction, the task allocation, information sharing, business statistics, and so on. Especially it can reduce the maintenance cost in the system maintenance and system upgrade, reduce the upgradeable period, and raise the working efficiency. However, when the enterprises and institutions introduces workflow management system, they often gets rid of the original or old information management system, develops a set of new software system, the development cost is relatively high. This paper proposed an implementation scheme on how to use the original system, and then upgrades seamlessly it to the flexible workflow management system that based on the workflow engine. Using OSWorkflow that has been used in industry widely to upgrade the original Java-based Web management system, it can reduce the software development workload and shorten the development period.