The Workflow Center repository

The Workflow Center includes a repository for all processes, services, and other assets created in the Process Designer and Integration Designer.

Process Designer is the standard authoring tool for business processes. A Business Automation Workflow Advanced deployment environment also offers Integration Designer with its associated editors and adapters.

Workflow Center is a software component that runs as a server where Process Designer and Integration Designer share assets, in effect letting them develop business processes cooperatively in a highly interactive manner.

In the diagram that follows, you see several related components that together let you build complex business processes.

The Workflow Center includes two servers, the Workflow Center server and the Performance Data Warehouse server. The Workflow Center server allows developers that are working in Process Designer to run their process applications and store performance data for testing and playback during development efforts. Performance Data Warehouse retrieves tracked data from Workflow Server or Workflow Center server at regular intervals. 

In the authoring environments, you can create process models, services, and other assets within process applications.

The Workflow Center console provides the tools that you need to maintain the repository.

• From the Workflow Center console, you can create process applications and toolkits and grant other users access to those process applications and toolkits.
• From the Workflow Center console, administrators install process applications that are ready for testing or production on the servers in those environments.
• From the Workflow Center console, administrators manage running instances of process applications in configured environments.

The Workflow Center console provides a convenient location in which to create and maintain high-level containers such as process applications and toolkits. Administrators can use the Workflow Center console to provide a framework in which BPM analysts and developers can build their processes and underlying implementations. Another primary task for administrators is managing access to the Workflow Center repository by setting up the appropriate authorization for users and groups.

Users with appropriate authorization can perform some administrative tasks directly in Process Designer and Integration Designer. For example, a developer with write access to the process application who wants to capture the state of all project assets at a significant stage of development can create a snapshot while working in the designer.