Companies

Workflow Manager 6.5

There are two main categories of people who use Workflow Manager:

Workflow consumers, who submit workflow requests using existing workflow templates
Workflow administrators, who action consumer requests, and are also responsible for creating workflow templates and managing roles and permissions (see Managing Roles and Permissions for more information).

In Workflow Manager, we call these categories of people companies.

In a typical enterprise, the workflow consumer company will consist of regular employees, responsible for manufacturing the products or delivering the services which that organization specializes in. These are the people who are likely to request hardware and software so that they can complete their tasks.

The workflow administrator company, in contrast, will consist of those people who can authorize such purchasing requests, and deliver or install the items when they arrive. Your finance department, for example, will receive requests to purchase a new software title, while your IT department will need to ensure it is deployed on the relevant workstations. Both these departments are likely to be set up as workflow administrators of Workflow Manager.

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