Creating objects for business processes

You create a workflow to manage the flow of work in a business process, and you create a collaboration area to hold the entries that are in the steps of the workflow. You use workflows to define a set of business processes and rules, which are then applied to any IBM® Product Master entries.

A business process is a set of tasks that a client performs to meet a business need or resolve a business issue. For example, a set of tasks for introducing a new product is a business process.

Solution architects need to understand the business needs of a company so that they can define the business processes for the company and build them in a workflow. There are various methodologies available to design the business processes for conducting a set of tasks, for example, outside-in and user modelling.

Business processes and collaboration in IBM Product Master can be created by using multiple methods, including native workflows, custom screens, portal screens, and file uploads. These topics focus on the workflow part of Product Master collaboration.