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Article #600Re: Any experience with Lotus Notes
From: Michael Evans
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:37
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:37
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In article <gate.8sNwXB1w165w@sytex.com>, keith@sytex.com (Keith Attenborough) writes: > I don't have any experience yet, but my organization is working on > installing Notes to support all the document form stuff -- papers, > memos, position documents, images, etc. we use on a daily basis. One of > the key features we were looking for and believe Notes provides is > support for workflow management, the ability to use the system to route > material to the corrct people for review and editing, then ensuring that > it is really those individuals who have done the work. It seems > designed to handle those tasks well. Unless things have changed since autumn 1992, then I am not sure that Lotus Notes is designed to handle more formal worksflows well. We had a good look at the functions and found that it was missing monitoring process times, escalation generically through the organisation (if he takes too long dealing with this case, signal his manager), split & join parallel activities etc. Of course, we could have implemented these functions, but then it would have been OUR implementation, and not the standard Lotus implementation which future Notelets would use. I may be wrong, I which case I am very interested of your experiences, or I may have the wrong definition of workflow processing, in which case I stand to be corrected. Regards, /Mike -- Michael Evans Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (S-E-Banken) SEB Data R Telephone: +46-8-639 33 70 S-106 40 Stockholm Fax: +46-8-639 37 62 Sweden Internet: mike@seb.se
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