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- Groupware Products - Part 3
- ===========================
-
-
- Business Process Reengineering Tools
- ------------------------------------
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
- From: Jerome Kreuser OBPIE 32796 <JKREUSER@worldbank.org>
- Subject: BPR Tools
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 15:33:12 GMT
-
- We are not a manufacturing company but produce
- intellectual products and financial products. Most of the tools
- I have seen are discrete simulation tools. Among these are:
-
- SIMAN plus ARENA from Systems Modeling Corporation
-
- SIMSCRIPT products from CACI including
- SIMPROCESS their BPR product and
- MODSIM for more flexibility and detail
-
- HOCUS from P-E International
-
- Extend+BPR from Imagine That, Inc.
-
- ithink from High performance Systems, Inc.
-
- Micro SAINT from Micro Analysis and Design, Inc.
-
-
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
- From: babcock@cc.gatech.edu (Jim Babcock)
- Subject: Re: BPR Tools
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 16:00:45 GMT
-
- Here are a few more tools used in US .. I have no evaluation data... sorry.
-
- Business Design Facility (Texas Instrumants, Dallas TX)
- Dynamic Business Modeling (Digital Equipment, Bosoton MA))
- QSNAP/SIMPAL (TEchno Sciences Inc & Ameritech Greenbelt MD & Hoffman
- Estates, IL))
- SPARKS (Coopers Lybrand, Chicago)
- TASC [Plan, FlowSim, Control, Station], (TASC, Reading MA)
- WITNESS (AT&T, Cleveland OH)
-
-
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
- From: Carl Petter Swensson <cepe@taskon.no>
- Subject: Re: BPR Tools
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 16:16:36 GMT
-
- Jerome Kreuser OBPIE 32796 <JKREUSER@worldbank.org> wrote:
-
- Are there other useful tools available for BPR?
-
- You should consider RDD-100 from Ascent Logic Corporation, CA, USA. This is
- a system engineering tool, but many concepts in Systems Engineering and BPR
- are common.
-
- I have used this tool for doing reverse-engineering of software _and_ for modelling
- business processes, the latter case was a military organization. In the case of
- organizational modelling both reverse-engineering, i.e. figuring out
- what people really
- are doing, and forward engineering, i.e. what they should do, was done.
-
- It worked well.
-
- It is a comprehensive tool with a its basis in a methodology called
- Requirements Driven Development. It has very good support for traceability, dynamic
- simulation/verification facilities etc.
-
-
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
- From: "Susanne Strahringer" <SUSANNE@bwl.bwl.th-darmstadt.de>
- Subject: Re: BPR Tools
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 11:29:13 GMT
-
- In SPURR, K., LAYZELL, P., JENNISON, L., RICHARDS, N. (edts.),
- Software Assistance for Business Re-engineering, John Wiley 1993,
- several tools are described. These include:
-
- APACHE (Electronic Data Systems): proprietary
- Business Design Facility (Texas Instruments): commercially available
- Business Improvement Facility (Virtual Software Factory):
- commercially available
- CADDIE (Logica Cambridge Ltd): research tool for consultancy support
- iThink (High Performance Systems): commercially available
- PROCESSWISE WORKBENCH (International Computers Ltd, ICL):
- commercially available
- RADitor (Co-ordination Systems Ltd): commercially available
- SES/Workbench (Scientific and Engineering Software): commercially
- available
- TOP-IX (TOP-IX Ltd): commercially available
-
- Apart from these I came across the following products. All but the first
- of the following tools are of german or suisse origin and therefore
- probably not available in an English version.
-
- ProcessWeaver (Cap Gemini Innovation)
- BONAPART (UBIS GmbH)
- ARIS-Tools (IDS Prof. Scheer GmbH)
- MOSAIK (sietec consulting GmbH Co. OHG)
- Workflow Analyzer (C.I.T. GmbH)
- INCOME (Promatis Informatik GmbH & Co KG)
- PACE (Grossenbacher Elektronik AG)
- GRADE (Siemens Nixdorf)
-
-
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
- From: jpt@jytkoson2.jyu.fi (Juha-Pekka Tolvanen)
- Subject: RE: BPR tools
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 14:20:23 GMT
-
- One tool that can be added to the list of BPR tools is a metaCASE tool
- called MetaEdit (MetaCase Consulting Inc.,metacase@jsp.fi).
-
- A specific feature of Metaedit is that the modeling methods included can
- be customized to different purposes (e.g. to modeling of logistic processes
- or to workflow modeling), or even new methods can be created. Current method
- support for BPR include value process modeling and activity modeling.
- --
- Juha-Pekka Tolvanen
- Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
- University of Jyva:skyla:
- P.O.Box 35, 40351 Jyva:skyla:, Finland
- E-mail: jpt@jyu.fi
- Tel: +358 41 603039, fax: 358 41 603611
-
-
- From: confrgrp@indirect.com (The Conference Group)
- Subject: BPR Tool to be Unveiled 3/10
-
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- Scott Dixon Smith
- 310.798.2425
-
- HOLOSOFX Ships v. 1.0 of Workflow*BPR,
- Breakthrough Software for Process Representation
-
- (Los Angeles . . . Feb. 20) HOLOSOFX, Inc. (f.k.a. Virtual Management,
- Inc.) has announced commercial availability of version 1.0 of its flagship
- business process representation product, Workflow*BPR.
-
- Workflow*BPR, the first in a family of Business Process Improvement
- products is a comprehensive, industry-independent, business process definition
- tool that allows realistic visual representation of exactly how a process is
- handled under specific conditions.
-
- Workflow*BPR, v. 1.0 is a single-user, Windows-based tool that captures
- the activities, participants, resources and conditions that determine the
- course of a business process. These components are then used to generate
- virtual workflows, which realistically represent exactly how a process is
- handled under all specified conditions and exceptions. In addition, all of
- the possible alternative paths within a virtual workflow can be captured and
- an explicit path can be generated on demand.
-
- [snip]
-
- Workflow*BPR is available directly from HOLOSOFX in Manhattan Beach, CA
- or from its new business partners. Business partners include TRW Systems
- Integration Group (Long Beach, CA) RISCmanagement Inc. (New York, NY), Hcm
- (Torrence, CA), Sequent Computer Systems (Portland) and IBM Workgroup
- Solutions (Kettletown, CT). Pricing has been set at $2,495 for a single-user
- copy.
-
- Plans are in progress for a client/server version, due out during the
- second quarter of 1995.
-
-
- Collaborative Multimedia Scientific Design
- ------------------------------------------
- SHASTRA is a X-11 based distributed and collaborative multimedia
- environment for cooperative problem solving. Licensed and sold by the
- Purdue Research Foundation. For info contact Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj
- (bajaj@cs.purdue.edu), 317-494-6531 fax 317-494-0739.
-
-
- MeetingWorks
- ------------
- From: "L. Floyd Lewis" <lewis@cbe.wwu.edu>
- Subject: Teaching version of MeetingWorks GSS
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 00:30:27 GMT
-
- A teaching version of MeetingWorks for Windows
- Group Support System is now available. Meeting-
- Works is a Windows-based GSS that has just been
- released for commercial use. It works best for
- small to medium sized groups who meet in a face-
- to-face setting. However, the software sets a
- high limit on the number of participants (99),
- and the current version could be used along with
- separate teleconferencing software.
-
- It is essentially a modular toolkit that can be
- used to design meetings for almost any purpose.
- It includes tools to support idea generation and
- commenting, discussion and organization of ideas,
- exploration of relationships (cross-impact analysis),
- and a variety of evaluation approaches (voting,
- selecting, ranking, rating, multi-attribute utility
- analysis). Almost any other Windows or DOS program
- can be included in a meeting script, and executed at
- the appropriate time during the meeting. The Meeting-
- Works modules create a variety of reports, tables, and
- graphs which can be distributed during the meeting,
- and/or used to document the activities of the group.
-
- As the originator of MeetingWorks, and a professor,
- I wanted to be able to offer a full featured GSS to
- instructors at an affordable price. Therefore, the
- teaching version has retained ALL of the power and
- features of the full commercial version. However, we
- want to remind users that this version is only to be
- used for teaching, and not for any kind of consulting,
- so we have included screen and report headings that
- identify the software as being the teaching version.
- That is the ONLY difference. Like the commercial
- version, the educational version is able to support up
- to 99 users. If you want to consult using MeetingWorks,
- educational institutions can acquire the commercial
- version at a 33% discount. When you order an educational
- Starter Pack, you receive the teaching version of the
- software, a full Users Manual, five copies of my supple-
- mental textbook, and a set of four meeting scripts that
- can be used to teach and/or demonstrate MeetingWorks (you
- can also write your own original meeting scripts using
- the included tool, ScriptWriter). While the software
- cannot be used for consulting, it can be used for bona
- fide research projects that do not involve the exchange
- of any funds (i.e. - you can't be paid in any way for
- the research). The price for the above is $300. If you
- wish to order or request further information, send me an
- email message, and I will mail or fax you an order form
- or send you additional information.
-
- Dr. L. Floyd Lewis
- Professor of Information Systems
- Western Washington University
- lewis@cbe.wwu.edu
- 360-650-4817 (voice)
- 360-733-2193 (FAX)
-
-
- IBIS, gIBIS, CM/1
- -----------------
- Newsgroups: alt.hypertext,comp.groupware
- From: kcby@netcom.com (K.C. Burgess Yakemovic)
- Subject: Re: Looking for Designs for Mapping Logical Arguments
- Date: Sun, 1 May 1994 14:56:15 GMT
-
- In article <9404291127.AA10463@rx7.intercon.com> doc@intercon.com (Dave Kosiur) writes:
- >In article <pjohnson.1.2DBDDB08@hookup.net>, pjohnson@hookup.net (Peter
- >Johnson) writes:
- >> I'm interested designs for representing information organized around
- >> the deconstruction of logical arguments.
- >
- >Take a look at the IBIS and gIBIS systems.
- >.... gIBIS had been a long-term project at MCC
- >in Austin. I believe the principals have since started their own business,
- >but, for the life of me, I cannot remember the company or product name.
-
- Jeff Conklin was the primary researcher in this work at MCC. He can be
- reached at:
-
- Corporate Memory Systems
- 8920 Business Park Drive
- Austin TX 78759
- phone: 512-795-9999
- fax: 512-794-5921
- email: conklin@msi.com
-
- The product name is CM/1.
-
- I am not connected with this company, but I did work with Jeff while he
- was at MCC... so I've kept up a bit with his more recent work.
-
- -- kcby
- KC Burgess Yakemovic
- Group Performance Systems Inc. phone / fax: 404-395-0282
- 4776 Village N. Ct. email : kcby@netcom.com
- Atlanta GA 30338 USA
-
-
- k-lendars
- ---------
- From: leon@crios.inria.fr (Jean-Michel Leon)
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: Re: Free email-based shared calendar (for UNIX) available?
- Date: 12 Jul 1994 08:41:35 GMT
-
- In article <DNB.94Jul11153226@media-lab.media.mit.edu>, dnb@media.mit.edu (David
- N. Blank-Edelman) writes:
- |> I am hoping that this has been written and is already available.
- |> I'd like to find a (freely redistributable) program that runs under
- |> UNIX which accepts email requests to modify or query a group calendar.
- |>
-
- I'm writing k-lendars, which is a distributed calendar manager with
- communications based on email. k-lendars has replicated architecture, so
- that each group member has a copy of the current calendar.
- I don't think if it is exactly what you need, because k-lendars do not offer
- schedule mechanism, but here is the description...
-
- DESCRIPTION :
- -----------
- K-lendars is a multi-user / multi-calendar diary.
- It is a MOTIF user interface to a distributed calendar manager.
- Communications are based on email and require a dispatch mechanism
- (procmail, slocal,...)
- Anyway if you do not want to use the multi user capabilities, you can use
- k-lendars in single-user mode, with one or more calendars.
-
- Features of version 1.1 are:
-
- - multi/calendar support
- - multi/user support, with group managment mechanisms
- - select/unselect any calendar
- - Year view
- - Day view
- - repeating appointments
- - alarms (up to 1 week before an appointment)
- - MOTIF 1.2 interface
- - mouse (point and click) oriented interface
- - customizability
-
- AVAILABILITY :
- ------------
- k-lendars is freely available, read the COPYRIGHT file.
- ftp location:
- avahi.inria.fr:/pub/k-lendars-1.1.tar.gz
- --
- Jean-Michel.Leon@sophia.inria.fr - Groupe Bull
- <A HREF="http://zenon.inria.fr:8003/koala/koala.html">See the Koala team</A>.
-
-
- Schedule Publisher
- ------------------
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- From: hillelm@psun (Hillel Meyers)
- Subject: Re: Looking for Schedule Publisher
- Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 22:27:21 GMT
-
- Schedule Publisher is from Lucas Managment Systems. You can contact
- Anndee McManus in Detroit at 810-353-4080.
-
- I have no experience with the tool, so I can give no comment.
- ==
- Hillel A. Meyers - Motorola - SMTP: hillelm@cadsun.corp.mot.com
-
-
- Collage for the X Window System
- -------------------------------
- From: gbourhis@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Gilles Bourhis)
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: Collage for X release 1.3
- Date: 21 Apr 1994 22:00:25 GMT
-
-
- The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is announcing the 1.3 release
- of Collage for the X Window System.
-
- Contacting address: softdev@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
- Quick overview:
- Collage is a tool with both scientific data analysis capabilities and
- collaboratives capabilities.
- Collage can read scientific data from HDF files and produce 2d images
- from them, annotate this images, view in a spreadsheet the actual datas,
- analyse them with some tools (profiling, histogram, contouring).
- Collage can also view images from various file format.
- Collage can be viewed also as a collaborative tools since several instances
- of collage can be linked together via a server (collage_server),
- exchanging message through the DTM protocol: what the end user will see is
- that each action of any participant in a Collage session is immediately
- propagated to the others, for example there is whiteboard where you can
- doodle things: everybody can watch what the other draw of write.
-
- New features in 1.3:
- . Full support of int16 (short) HDF type.
- . Support of int8 HDF type.
- . Backspace works when doodling text in image or whiteboard.
- . contour works for all data type.
- . animation of a 3d data along an arbitrary axis can be generated from
- the 3d panel.
- . Fix bug when the default number of colorcells is less than 256.
- . Add options for naming of SDSs (use of annotation or not...).
- . Screen capture on SGI works better.
- . Delete buttons added so that you can recover some memory.
- . Add private copy button on the spreadsheet.
-
- Distribution:
- The software is available through anonymous ftp for both binaries and
- source code. ftp ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (141.142.20.50) and answer anonymous
- to the Name question. Than cd /UNIX/XCollage/Collage1.3, get DOCS,
- quit ftp, read DOCS and download the binaries that you need.
- --
- Gilles Bourhis Software Development Group
- gbourhis@ncsa.uiuc.edu NCSA, U of I at Urbana-Champaign
-
- [NCSA WWW pages (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/SDGSoftDir.html):]
-
-
- DEC's LinkWorks
- ---------------
- From: arndtr@cs.bu.edu (Randy Arndt)
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: Re: Is Lotus Notes REALLY groupware????
- Date: 1 May 1994 13:23:08 GMT
-
- Philip Leung (philip-leung@cuhk.hk) wrote:
-
- : Also, so far, I haven't seen discussions on DEC's LinkWorks. I do find it
- : quite impressive, especially on the document workflow capability. Any details
- : from anyone?
-
- : Philip Leung
-
- LinkWorks is one of the most impressive products that I have seen. I don't
- think that it is even in the same category as Notes. I recently attended a
- conference called Crossroads '94 (Hosted by the company I work for, I must
- add) where Digital was one of the main sponsors. The technology that they
- chose to exhibit was Linkworks.
-
- In addition to their exhibit, DEC also brought with them a customer (a
- major Canadian bank) who put on a live demonstration of the product. What
- I saw was incredible. As Philip pointed out, Linkworks does have extremely
- robust (yet easy to use) workflow capabilities. However, that is not the
- products only strong suit. What I was particularly impressed with was the
- product allowed developers to create a desktop of functions for users. I
- would liken this to the way Notes lets you build a set of applications in a
- folder. Unlike Notes, however, Linkworks is not a development environment.
- All of the applications are created with other products, but they are
- collected and organized within the Linkworks desktop. These don't even
- have to be custom applications. Products like Notes and Word are just as
- easily integrated into the desktop as custom applications.
-
- Another interesting feature is the portability of a user's desktop. As
- with Notes, Linkworks provides a custom desktop for each user. This
- desktop is also extremely portable. In the demonstration that I saw a
- remote user dialed into the home LAN and received the same desktop that he
- would have received if he had been physically located on the LAN. In fact,
- for all intents and purposes he was on the LAN even though he was over
- 3,000 miles away. What was even more interesting was that the process is
- intelligent. Developers can limit access to certain resources on the LAN
- (such as multimedia apps that would be too slow over phone lines or high
- security applications) for remote users.
-
- I am not often excited about groupware, but I consider this product quite
- good. It is an extremely young product, but I think it has a definite
- future in enterprisewide workflow. If anyone would like more information
- on Linkworks let me know and I will tell you who to get in touch with at
- DEC.
-
- Randy Arndt
- Open Systems Advisors
-
-
- From: roelof@apd.dec.com (Roelof Vuurboom)
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: Re: DEC Linkworks.
- Message-ID: <roelof.786041406@zoem>
- Date: 28 Nov 94 16:50:06 GMT
-
- this may help you on your way a bit: some reviews partially or
- totally dedicated to LinkWorks done by some independent magazines. I've
- also included the first sentence on LinkWorks.
-
- * Byte Magazine - August 1994 pp.147 (Ben Smith)
-
- DEC's LinkWorks delivers a multiplatform - Unix, Open VMS, PC, and
- Macintosh - workflow system. If groups in your organization collaborate
- on the creation and development of documents, images, or data,
- LinkWorks can provide an effective set of tools for automating your
- most complex workflow task.
-
- * Datamation - 7 January 1994 (Wendy Pickering)
- LinkWorks illustrates some of the advantages the frameworks
- approach has over suites. For one, Digital has initially announced
- support for HP-PA, IBM RS/6000 servers, Mac and Motif workstations
- running on Alpha AXP, OpenVMS for VAX, reduced instruction set
- computing systems, SCO-UNIX and Windows PC's, and Digital promises
- to keep expanding its platforms. The suites are largely Windows based.
-
- * SCO World - July 1994 (Alan Southerton)
-
- LinkWorks - Groupware from DEC Digital Equipment Corp. attacks
- the market with a vengeance. LinkWorks is a high-profile Windows-based
- product that runs on an SCO server and distributes your workflow.
-
- [Note: LinkWorks clients run on Macintosh, Presentation Manager and
- Motif besides Windows. roelof]
-
- * UNIX NEWS - April 1994 (Roger Whitehead) pp.41
-
- DEC is adapting to new demands in the office systems market with
- its new LinkWorks product, which may eventually supplant its All-in-1
- office system. Roger Whitehead reviews the new software.
-
- * CLIENT/SERVER COMPUTING, October 1994:
-
- Message-Based Workflow Tools Find Eager Audience (sidebar titled
- Users Helped by Object Orientation)
-
- The next generation of workflow tools will use object-oriented technology,
- allowing users and developers to create workflows by simply manipulating
- icons that represent tools, users, processes and routing of objects. . .
-
-
- If you have access to the World Wide Web you can acquire some
- information directly from Digitals World Wide Web Server:
-
- Customer Updates on LinkWorks are accessible via:
-
- http://www.digital.com/www-cgi-bin/Customer-Update?LinkWorks
-
- Software Product Descriptions on LinkWorks are accessible via:
-
- http://www.digital.com/www-cgi-bin/SPD?LinkWorks
-
- Info Sheets on LinkWorks are accessible via:
-
- http://www.digital.com/www-cgi-bin/infosheet?LinkWorks
-
- Some brochures describing some customer experiences are accessible via:
-
- http://www.digital.com/www-cgi-bin/brochure?LinkWorks
- --
- Roelof Vuurboom tel: (+31) 40 89 22 25
- E.C.H.O fax: (+31) 40 89 23 00
- Philips Information Systems email: roelof@pcg.philips.nl
-
-
- From: Roelof Vuurboom <roelof@apd.dec.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: Announcing Digital's LinkWorks WWW Site
- Date: 24 Feb 1995 13:06:50 GMT
-
- Digital Equipment Corporation announces the LinkWorks InfoCenter
- WWW server at:
-
- <URL:http://www.digital.com/info/linkworks>
-
- You can also access the InfoCenter from Digital's Corporate Home Page:
-
- <URL:http://www.digital.com>
-
- and select InfoCenters.
-
- LinkWorks is Digital's award-winning framework for delivering
- client/server, customized business solutions for knowledge workers in
- workgroup environments. Out-of-the-box LinkWorks group-enables existing
- systems and applications with group-sharing, document management and
- workflow functionality. It integrates personal and group productivity
- applications as well as business applications.
-
- The fully object-oriented LinkWorks engine allows customers, business
- partners and ISVs alike to routinely develop group-enabled client/server
- solutions and to integrate business applications and legacy
- systems within the LinkWorks framework. Sophisticated technology can
- encapsulate value add solutions into software components allowing third
- parties to market and distribute their solutions in a protected form
- providing investment security. Software component installation is as
- simple as runtime drag-and-drop.
-
- LinkWorks supports a broad choice of desktop clients (Windows, Macintosh,
- OS/2 and Motif workstations), network protocols (TCP/IP, DECnet and IPX/SPX),
- databases (CA/Ingres, Informix and Oracle) and servers (Digital, HP, IBM
- and Intel-based), both protecting existing investments as well as providing
- customers freedom of platform choice. LinkWorks is fully internationalised and
- is available in over 25 Asian and Western languages world wide.
-
- Email address is linkworks@digital.com
-
- LinkWorks related information is also available on the FABA
- (Fallmann und Bauernfeind Gesellschaft.m.b.H.) WWW server at:
-
- <URL:http://www.faba.co.at/faba/>
-
-
- Workflow Management
- -------------------
- From: as99999@raver.sbil.co.uk (Andrew Stuart)
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: Re: Need product-infos on Workflow Management
- Date: 6 May 1994 13:13:44 GMT
- Reply-To: as99999@raver.sbil.co.uk
-
- Which tool you use depends on your aplication, but some of the tools are
- Lotus Notes, Action Workflow, Staffware, Teamlinks, Delrina Formflow,
- Jetform, Wordperfect Informs and many others. The US edition of PC magazine
- reviewed Workgrouping packages in their June 93 issue.
-
- For pure workflow, there isnm't alot out there at the moment. Look closely
- at Action Workflow in conjunction with Lotus Notes, or use its SQL connectivity.
-
- It can be a good idea just to build your application using traditional tools such
- as Power or visual basic, but the use the add in libraries for Lotus Notes
- for each product to enhance their workgrouping abilities.
- Andrew
-
-
- From: mfalexand@VNET.IBM.COM (Michael Alexander)
- Date: Sun, 22 May 94 00:09:02 CST
- Subject: Re: Need product-infos on Workflow Management
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
-
- In article <2qdfq8$jh59offas_dike.sbil.co.uk> as999999raver.sbil.co.uk writes:
- > For pure workflow, there isnm't alot out there at the moment. Look closely
- > at Action Workflow in conjunction with Lotus Notes, or use its SQL
- > connectivity.
-
- There's good news; IBM Corp. has just announced the availability of FlowMark,
- an industry-strength workflow manager.
-
- FlowMark is a fully object-oriented client/server application with
- functionality to do everything from graphically designing processes to
- animating and operating them.
-
- Persons involved in a FlowMark process see their assigned activities on their
- personalized work lists on their workstation. When they perform activities
- from the work list they are guided by appropriate help information, and
- supported by seamless invocation of the necessary programs.
-
- FlowMark is prepared to run with Lotus Notes, can be a front-end to 3270-
- based host applications and work with IBM VisualInfo for image based
- workflow, among others. It can be tailored for workflow management in
- a variety of industries. Applications areas also include business process
- documentation/improvement/re-engineering, ISO 9000 certification/Baldridge
- and application integration.
-
- For information contact your local IBM representative/office and ask for
- FlowMark/workgroup. If you need info on services around FlowMark or want
- to provide them you can drop me a note.
-
- Best Regards,
-
- Michael F.Alexander
- mfalexand@vnet.ibm.com
-
-
- From: rbs@fractaldata.com (Robert Stucky)
- Subject: Re: Workflow automation software
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 13:19:26 GMT
-
- Check out ODMS from Odesta Systems Corp (Northbrook, Ill. (708) 498-5615,
- e-mail at bng@odesta.com). Their software will do what you want, plus some.
-
- >the type of
- >application I'm looking at (IBM's Flowmark is an example) is able to define,
- >model and provide scripting for execution of procedures, including invocation
- >of applications which are actually needed to perform the task. As a
- >software developer, I'd like to see a package that also allows discrete
- >portions of the workflow to be encapsulated so that a development effort can
- >be undertaking to completely automate portions of the workflow. Deployment
- >on GUI workstations is a must with design work also done graphically.
-
- This is precisely what I am using it for on a project form EPRI. We are
- taking analyses that run on remote machines and combining the output to make
- predictions of mechanical behavior in reactor pressure vessels. It's a
- combination of human-human, human-machine-human workflow. Most stages are
- fully automated. As for deployment, applications are automatically deployed
- across platforms. Develop on Windows, deploy to Mac, and vice versa (100%
- compatibility). Oh, by the way, the client software automatically downloads
- changes to applications during log on. An "X" version is due out sometime
- this summer.
-
- >I think I'm looking for a combination workflow/CASE tool here, so both
- >procedures and data used therein can be modelled with the same tool, yet
- >the resulting procedures can actually be deployed to end users - any
- >recommendations for tools to look at?
-
- Their scripting language is kind of a cross between C and hypertalk. It is
- very powerful, and also inherently extensible. Extensions are written as
- code resources, much like VBX controls or XCMD's.
-
- Another nice feature of the product is it's implementation of roles. People
- (machines) are assigned roles, and the role defines what application objects
- are downloaded on what machine. This gives you the ability to define speciic
- task sets at the machine level, and deploy an application customized for
- that particular workstation. A side benefit is that rolse stick to the user
- id & password. This allows people to log on from any workstation anywhere
- and still get the application suite they expect (and need). As an example,
- you could be in a meeting, and log on using someone else's laptop, the
- software would note who you were, and download the appropriate application
- objects for your role.
-
- ===============================================================================
- Robert Stucky Education is what remains
- rbs@fractaldata.com when one has forgotten
- everything he learned in school.
- A. Einstein
-
-
- From: MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett")
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.hp.apps
- Subject: Re: Need product-infos on workflow management
-
- mfalexand@VNET.IBM.COM writes:
-
- >IBM Corp. has just announced...workflow manager.
-
- Although Wang is an IBM alliance partner, reselling RS/6000s,
- we generally provide the new Wang GUI-oriented workflow for AIX
- with the RS/6000, rather than the IBM workflow, as I understand
- it. RS/6000 users might want to benchmark the two, and see which
- better meets their technical requirements. (The Wang workflow also
- runs under HP-UX, for those interested in potential portability.)
-
- Michael.Willett@office.wang.com
-
-
- From: Shelly Partrich <Shelly.Partrich@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
- Subject: Re: Workflow automation software
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 14:03:52 GMT
-
- ProcessIT is sounding more and more a product that you need to consider. Here's
- a brief description.
-
- AT&T ProcessIT is a transaction-based, groupware product for developing and
- executing automated process paths within the cost-effective environment of
- client/server computing.
-
- MapBuilder is the Windows-based tool used to define process maps. Maps can
- include submaps to allow complex processes to be defined and automated with
- ProcessIT.
-
- The Process Activity Manager (PAM) is ProcessIT's workflow engine that resides
- on the server. PAM acts as a routing and delivery server, providing information
- to its clients about the work to be done based on the defined process map.
-
- WorkView is a graphical "to-do" list that provides a focal point for launching
- client workflow activity. WorkView executes any Windows application that are
- defined by using ProcessITP2s Association feature. Work may be viewed by user,
- roles, or by activities. Workitems can be queried by priority so that the
- highest priority work items can be worked on first.
-
- ProcessIT's Status Monitor is a Windows application that allows Administrators
- to capture the status of work items and activity queues to identify potential
- bottlenecks.
-
- ProcessIT 2.0 just had its second release last month and will be shown at the
- Workflow Conference in San Jose on August 10-12.
-
- You can get information by calling your local AT&T Global Information Solutions
- representative in your area. (AT&T Global Information Solutions is what was
- formerly called NCR.) If you need further assistance getting information
- about ProcessIT, send an email to Shelly.Partrich@Columbia.SC.NCR.COM.
-
-
- From: getr@csesys.csesys.co.at (Gerald Trost C.S.E Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: product info Workflow CSE/IBM at
- Date: 20 Jun 1994 14:35:47 GMT
-
- WORKFLOW BY C.S.E SYSTEMS AND IBM AUSTRIA
-
- WorkFlow is a client/server product with more than 425 000
- lines of code, originally build for Austrian government agencies
- (which work according to very strict rules similar to ISO9000).
- It fully complies to the reference model of the
- Workflow Management Coalition, i.e. it consists of a module
- for "build time" operations
- (design of business models and business re-engineering), a
- workflow run time engine, communication facilities to combine
- two or more workflow engines
- seamless into one workflow service, various tools and utilities.
-
- The product can integrate office software (MS Office, Lotus, Word Perfect)
- as well as host and UNIX services. It handles heterogeneous packages of
- user defined data (called folders, files, ....).
-
- The product uses a standard relational database to store case data.
- Installations in the German speaking area of Europe use currently Oracle,
- Ingres and Informix databases with WorkFlow. Support for
- Sybase and DB2 on RISC/6000 will be available soon.
-
- Since the product was originally build for Government, data security and
- safety was given special consideration. The product is positioned carefully to
- complement IBM FlowMark's functionality. FlowMark was developed in the IBM Labs
- of Vienna/Austria as part of IBM's AD Cycle product line.
-
- While FlowMark has its strengths in the analysis, design and simulation
- phase of the business reengineering effort, WorkFlow focuses on the
- implementation, run-time and evaluation phase. An interface between FlowMark
- and WorkFlow is currently implemented by CSE Systems, as well as interfaces
- to systems from other suppliers of business analysis and redesign products.
-
-
- From: rnewman@wv.mentorg.com (Reynaldo Newman)
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: Mentor Graphics Announces EDA Workflow Management System
- Date: 11 Nov 1994 16:00:14 GMT
-
- MENTOR GRAPHICS PRESS RELEASE
-
- Lillian Tsai
- Corporate Communications
- Mentor Graphics Corporation
- (503) 685-1177
-
- MENTOR GRAPHICS ANNOUNCES INDUSTRY'S FIRST COMPLETE WORKFLOW
- MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
-
- Users Cite 30 Percent Reduction in Design Cycle Time
-
- WILSONVILLE, Ore. -- November 7, 1994 -- Mentor Graphics
- Corporation today announced a major advancement in workflow
- management technology with the introduction of its
- WorkXpert(tm) family of products. The products, which
- function in any EDA vendor's design flow, enable design teams
- to capture, control and track their design flows with
- unprecedented ease and flexibility, and reduce propagation of
- errors in the design process, therefore increasing the
- opportunity for first-pass design success. Early users have
- reported up to a 30 percent reduction in design cycle times.
-
- The WorkXpert family of products consists of the following
- applications:
-
- - FlowXpert - A multi-user application that offers a
- graphical view of design flows, tracking of tasks and data,
- automation of design steps, and a history of actions taken to
- complete the design.
-
- - XpertBuilder - A graphical drag and drop builder tool for
- capturing and modifying design flows and associated behavior.
-
- - ProjectXpert - ProjectXpert allows for the setup and
- administration of design projects, and the exportation of
- project metrics to project management tools such as Microsoft
- Corporation's Microsoft Project(tm), Claris' MacProject(tm)
- and Digital Tools' AutoPlan II(tm). It also features
- ProjectProbes(tm), a unique capability which provides up-to-
- the-minute, accurate status on the state of key project
- deliverables.
-
-
- From: fredw@fred1.demon.co.uk (Fred K Weil)
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: Re: Workflow Management Systems
-
- In article <3434o4$igo@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> lamaster@puma.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster) writes:
- >
- > Do any of these, or any other workflow products, run on *Unix*
- > platforms?
- >
- Staffware, Process IT, Flo-Ware to name but three all run on UNIX. They all
- support Windows 3 clients. Staffware and Flo-Ware support Dumb Terminals,
- I think Flo-Ware also support X.Windows and Mac Clients.
-
- ICL and IBM also produce UNIX products as do other suppliers.
-
-
- Electronic Forms
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- From: CARESS@infocomp.csir.co.za (ABU ABRAHAMS)
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: Re: Info on Electronic Forms please.
- Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 09:12:37
-
- The following references to packages were made.
-
- References:
- 1. Staffware: a robust workflow application from a British
- company with over 30,000 seats installed around the world.
- in London: +44 (0) 71 262 1021
- 2. AT&T ProcessIT: a new workflow product, backed by AT&T, and they
- also remarket DelRina's FormFlow software.
- Seems to require AT&T Unix. Contact AT&T.
- 3. InConcert from XEROX. A good looking workflow application
- running on Windows or Unix clients, and Unix servers.
- In Palo Alto, CA: 415-424-0111 or 800-626-6775.
- 4> Reach Software Corporation has a package out It's an e-mail
- based workflow manager, with a forms generation package included,
- and graphical workflow design, for an all-PC environment.
- 5> Word Perfect INFORMS -Professional form handling,Network ready,
- Email enabled.
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