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In this paper, we will discuss business relevance factors, architectural concepts, tool approaches, and user-interface samples of the GroupFlow environment. GroupFlow offers business process and technology frameworks to set up versatile and flexible workflow systems for distributed information management within organizations and with their outside communication partners. We regard the synergetic approaches being used in the GroupFlow architecture — for the frontend client-workplaces of the several user typologies as well as for the distributed backend server components — as innovative. The GroupFlow environment perhaps best can be profiled around integrating concepts that are typically referred to as workgoup computing or Groupware on the one hand, and workflow management or business process design on the other.
Notes: Ludwig Nastansky @ WIUNIPB @ LOTUSINT/Wolfgang Hilpert @ WIUNIPB @ LOTUSINT
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Nastansky, L., Hilpert, W. (1994). The GroupFlow System: A Scalable Approach to Workflow Management between Cooperation and Automation. In: Wolfinger, B. (eds) Innovationen bei Rechen- und Kommunikationssystemen. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51136-3_62
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