1. 1 TieFlow Workflow Toolkit Process Definition XML Capstone Fall ’07 Group #3 March 1st, 2007

2. 2 Team Information  Advisor: Dr. Kwok-Bun Yue yue@uhcl.eduyue@uhcl.edu  Mentors: Scott Hetheringtonshetheri@tietronix.comshetheri@tietronix.com Abbasi Dhilawa adhilawa@hermes.tietronix.comadhilawa@hermes.tietronix.com  Team Members: Sarjana Singhsarjana_singh10@yahoo.comsarjana_singh10@yahoo.com Plabita Baruah plabita_baruah@hotmail.complabita_baruah@hotmail.com Jigyasa Dubeyjigyasadubey@yahoo.comjigyasadubey@yahoo.com Preetha Paul preethabpaul@hotmail.compreethabpaul@hotmail.com

3. 3 Table of Contents  Overview of the Company Plabita Baruah  What is Workflow ? Plabita Baruah  Tieflow WorkFlow Toolkit Preetha Paul  Requirements Preetha Paul  Business Motivation Preetha Paul  TieFlow Architecture Sarjana Singh  Details of TieFlow Sarjana Singh  TieFlow Elements Jigyasa dubey  Our Progress Jigyasa dubey  Solution Jigyasa dubey  References Jigyasa dubey

4. 4 Overview of the Company Tietronix Software, Inc  Founded in 1999.  Full-service provider of custom software applications and advanced technology solutions.  Tietronix is recognized for its focus on reliability, on-time delivery and service.

5. 5 Workflow Business Workflow  Workflow, by definition, is the automation of a business process.  Information or tasks are passed from one participant to another for action, according to a set of procedural rules.  It is a set of tasks assigned to people or programs in order to accomplish a piece of work.

6. 6 Manual Process

7. 7 Automatic Process

8. 8 TieFlow Workflow Toolkit  The TieFlow Workflow Toolkit – workflow automation system.  Functions of the toolkit  Define and deploy process  Execute the process  Monitor the process  Advantages of the toolkit  Simple user interface  Web-based  XML

9. 9 WorkFlow Editor User Interface

10. 10  Problems with TieFlow XML and DTD  Compatibility with current standards  Solution  XML Translator

11. 11 Requirements  Transformation of TieFlow XML  XPDL 2.0 – XML Process Definition language  BPEL4WS 1.1 – Business Process Execution Language for web services

12. 12 High level diagram TieFlow elements XPDL XSD elements BPEL XSD elements TieFlow XML BPEL XML MAP (in XML) Translator (Java or XSLT) XPDL XML

13. 13 Business motivation  Compatibility with current Standards  Better marketing of the product

14. 14 TieFlow Architecture

15. 15 Details of TieFlow  TieFlow elements – Package – Process – Activity – Work Item

16. 16 TieFlow Elements  Forms. jpg Forms. jpg – Form section – Content data – Exit point – Entry point

17. 17 Our Progress  TieFlow elements, attributes, data types and the default values.  Similarities and Differences.  Omission of BPEL.  Elements in TieFlow that are missing corresponding matches in XPDL.  One to one matches.

18. 18 Solution  Some elements/attributes are missing in XPDL in compare to Tieflow.  Extended XPDL schema.  Vendor extension.  MatchesFound.xls MatchesFound.xls

19. 19 References  Company Overview – http://www.tietronix.com/aboutUs/aboutUs_overview.a sp http://www.tietronix.com/aboutUs/aboutUs_overview.a sp  Importance of Automation of Workflow – http://www.tietronix.com/ourWork/ourWork_caseEflo wISS.asp http://www.tietronix.com/ourWork/ourWork_caseEflo wISS.asp  TieFlow architecture document  XPDL specification document  XPDL schema document  TieFlow DTD

20. 20 Thank you