This page introduces some of key concepts related to designing a business process with Emakin and terminology used.
Process
Put simply, a process is a way of doing your work. It's a structured way of organizing activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product.
For example: When your computer is malfunctioning you may call a technical guy on the phone and wait for him to come over, or you may start Incident Request process that is automatically assigned to the relevant technical person and instantly trace the current status of your request.
Using a clearly-defined process flow saves you from chaos while doing your work. All of your daily business activities can ultimately be defined as a process.
In emakin everything you do is about starting a new process or completing an assigned task from your inbox. Even defining a new user or terminating a workflow instance is controlled by a process.
Folder
Processes are categorized in a security controlled folders. Folders are generally used to access start points of process or reporting business data. Folders can be contain other folders to build a hierarchical organization. You can create new folders any time or automatically created when you install a process from app store.
Process Definition
In emakin everything you define, stored in a process definition in a XML format. Process definition contains the all of required information (diagram, databases, web services) to run. Process definitions are also versioned under processes for switch to different versions of process any time.
Business Data
A process exists to