SharePoint Server Workflow

A workflow is the process by which a file, business operation, or transaction taking place on a day-to-day, monthly or yearly basis as per the requirement. Workflows automate redundant processes like document forwarding, information transfer and signature requests SharePoint 2010 has inbuilt features of workflow templates to automate approval, review, forwarding and storage.

• The Workflow is integrated with SharePoint and Office 2007/2010 desktop applications also. You can initiate and interact with workflows from MS word to all other office applications.
• InfoPath Forms Services, allows organizations to use web based forms to capture information and route that information appropriately via workflow
• Custom workflows can be created using the new Microsoft Office
• MOSS includes workflows which allow organization to create automated business processes for approval and review, signature requests, translation management, group approval and feedback requests. Thus custom workflows provide systematic efficiencies in the collaborative business process.
• Integration with InfoPath Forms Services can create that "paperless environment" through the use of designed electronic forms that make it easy to collect and validate information that drives your business process.

C3IT provides process engineering to organizations to clearly demonstrate physical process into virtual environments to create productivity and efficiency.

In any organization, inefficiency in business processes is not in the execution by the individuals, rather in the time between steps in the sequence. How long does it take to get signatures from a group, collect feedback, or facilitate a return transaction? Those minutes and hours create lags and latency in business process. By placing a workflow process in a virtual environment the time between nodes of a process can be reduced from days to milliseconds. Administrators of the next step are notified, take ownership, and execute without waiting for a physical activity to occur.