Business Processes An organized flow of activities or tasks that achieves a business goal. An automated business process minimizes the amount of paperwork and manual tasks to complete that process by way of automatic actions, online forms, and automatically generated messages. are organized flows of business activities or tasks that achieve a business goal.
- You can describe anything that you can do in any business application as a Business Process, for example, add an employee, edit a timecard, approve a timecard, totalize time, or post a schedule.
- Automation in Business Processes minimizes the amount of paperwork and manual tasks to complete a process. For example, managers and employees receive automatically generated messages and complete online forms during the course of the Business Process.
You can customize Business Processes as:
- Extensions to configurable workflows. Example: Validate time-off requests Request subtypes that employees use to request time off for vacation, illness or recovery, appointments, personal time, or other absences. Time-off requests can be configured to support many different employment scenarios..
- Stand-alone Business Processes. Example: Approve updates to personal information.
Administrators, managers, or employees start or respond to Business Processes from the Business Process tile A container that provides navigation or action from its summary view. on their home page The page that is presented to the user upon login, which contains the tiles that let the user access or navigate to common tasks., the GoTo control, the Control Center, Attestation The act of confirming or attesting that something is true. For example, when punching out, users may need to attest that they took their meal breaks. Punch The entries on a timecard that mark the beginning (in-punch) or end (out-punch) of a work interval, such as the beginning of a shift or transfer. Tile, Smart View from devices or from notifications.
Caution: Business Processes can access almost any data in the system. To preserve data security and privacy, make sure that only trusted personnel have permissions to create and assign Business Processes, and that they do so in a way that protects data and prevents exposure of data to people who are not privileged to access that data.