Workflow Manager Concepts

Workflow Manager 6.5

This section familiarizes you with the following Workflow Manager concepts:

Workflow Manager Concepts

Concept

Description

Workflow Templates

A Workflow Manager Workflow is an ordered series of phases and steps that an administrator company follows. The sequence of phases and steps is determined by a Template.

Projects

Defined for a specific consumer company with a specific Request and a Deployment Template, which determine the steps that the administrator company carries out in preparing the application for deployment to end users' computers and in deploying the prepared application.

Workflow Requests

A record, associated with a project, requesting that a workflow administrator perform a series of steps, typically, to prepare an application for deployment to end user computers or to deploy the prepared application to end user computers.

Companies

Describes the two types of Workflow Manager users: workflow consumers and workflow administrators.

Workflow Families

User-defined categories, such as Manufacturer or type of software, that you can set up to group Requests.

Deployment Sites

User-defined groups of end users of the consumer company, such as office locations or departments, where software will be deployed.