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Executive Summary
Over the last decade, business process management solutions have beengaining considerable momentum as organizations are struggling to maintainconsistency and efficiency in executing their core business processes.Workflow for automating formal business processes has been built intoenterprise solutions and line-of-business applications, and business processmanagement point solutions have emerged for more comprehensive processmanagement capabilities. Despite these advancements in business processmanagement technologies, workflow and business process managementsolutions are typically used to address only a small percentage of the workthat is done within an enterprise. By focusing exclusively on highly structuredbusiness processes designed by a small number of employees, organizationshave historically neglected to address and enable the less formal and moreiterative work that is completed by the vast majority of employees.As our reliance on collaborative information sharing continues to increase,companies have begun to shift their focus towards more flexible solutions thatcan bridge the gap between formalized, structured process execution andindividual activities. Companies have developed an increased understandingthat the activities of all workers exist within the context of a larger businessprocess, but the everyday actions of most employees take place outside of formal systems, like authoring and reviewing documents or ad-hoc processesmanaged via e-mail. Today, these common activities are conducted in an ad-hoc manner with little visibility and connectivity across silos. As a result,individuals are working less efficiently and the effectiveness of key processesis diminishing.Microsoft has responded to these industry challenges by providing theMicrosoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Workflow solution that delivershighly flexible tools like InfoPath Forms Services for data collection andworkflow interaction and SharePoint® Designer for easy workflow design andcustomization including robust out of the box features to enable the rapiddeployment and adoption of business process solutions across the enterprise.By supplementing formalized process execution with collaborative humaninteraction, employees can work more effectively in the context of the largergoals of the enterprise.
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