Services by schwindling.biz for optimal use of Workflow in combination with Baan ERP

Workflow adds a lot of value to an ERP application. It is built to streamline and actively drive business processes through your enterprise and even coordinate communication with your business partners. It routes work items to the right person at the right time, automates routine activities and creates overall transparency on the status of every process around your ERP system. For such reasons many Baan customers have been urgently looking for workflow functionality within Baan.

Recently the product COSA Workflow * in combination with the Baan ERP software became officially available as Baan's Workflow-Manager. COSA Workflow is the only such system, which has been integrated by Baan.  schwindling.biz is offering support in the optimal use of workflow together with Baan and opens the possibility for you to access its deep expert knowledge in this area, which is unique world wide.

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Background

The workflow-software COSA, which has been acquired back from Baan according to an Infoletter of the software producer Ley GmbH in April 2001, had been integrated by Baan themselves with the Baan ERP Version 5.0c as the Baan Workflow-Manager. It has replaced the workflow-solution developed by Baan itself for Baan IV, which has never been developed into a real mature product. In the meantime there is also an integration between COSA Workflow and the Baan IV c4 version.

Workflow Added Value and Application Areas

By this integration using workflow in combination with Baan becomes possible in a stable way and is supported by Baan and the workflow-software producer. Baan customers benefit from the extended possibilities to execute business processes modelled in the Dynamic Enterprise Modeller also at runtime. You can coordinate approval- and information procedures, surrounding processed outside the ERP-usage as well as enterprise spanning communication.

On top of these there are a lot of further potential usage areas for workflow, e.g. in archiving and document management (DMS), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), supply chain collaboration and business event management.

Why should you get support from schwindling.biz ?

The COSA Workflow product family has been designed since 1990 by Peter Schwindling in his role as head of software-development in Ley GmbH, Germany. In the following years, he has managed various workflow implementation projects of different scale and in different branches (industry, logistics, financial services, public administration). In the years 1998 and 1999 he designed the system architecture for the integration and managed the common Baan/Ley project team on behalf of Baan, which integrated the workflow management system into the ERP software. As Chief Technology Officer of Ley GmbH, Peter Schwindling was responsible for developing new solution concepts, for feasibility studies and ROI planning for customers, and for management and coaching of complex implementation projects.

Thus you have access to

absolute first hand expert knowledge and deep experience

on using Baan and COSA Workflow.

 

* COSA Workflow is a registered trade mark of TRANSFLOW AG, Cologne, Germany

 

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