Organizations making an investment in workflow software want to be sure that their investment is going to be protected. With standards users can have confidence that essential criteria will be met, hence reducing the risk involved. This clearly becomes of paramount importance when workflow systems are required to interoperate with those of other organizations whenever business processes are conducted across organizational boundaries.

Clilck here to see the WfMC Conformance Table of vendors who have demonstrated standards compliance.

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Workflow Standards Framework

The Coalition has developed a framework for the establishment of workflow standards. This framework includes five categories of interoperability and communication standards that will allow multiple workflow products to coexist and interoperate within a user's environment. More technical details are available in the WfMC document Workflow Reference Model.

• Have a question? Join our discussion of technical and organizational issues in our web-based forum at www.workflow-research.de/Forums or Member Discussion Forum for Workgroups (WfMC Members)

• Specifications and standards such as XPDL and Wf-XML

• Public Documents include Interface Reference documents derived from the Working Groups.

• Documents under review and other works in progress are available in the Members Only section.

• If you need additional guidance, please refer to the Workflow Standards and Associated Documents or the index of published documents.

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• Glossaries: English: 198Kb pdf (Revised) French: (of Version 2.0) : 68Kb pdf Glossary German Version Discussion Paper