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Jiahui Wang

Liqiang Zhu

Yi Zeng

Rajalakshmi Dani

Neil Shipp

David Hetherington

Nick Voicu

Anand Madhava Menon

Guanghui He

Zhaoan Liu

Gavin Ackroyd

Omid Afnan

Yu Huang

Yaron Burd

Jingjing Zhong

Yu (Kyle) Huang

An approval request for a recurring workflow instance is received, that requests the execution of an instance of a recurring workflow. An authorization token is generated based upon the content of the particular workflow to be executed, the location where the workflow is to be executed, and a time period during which the workflow is to be executed. The authorization token is sent, along with a representation of a workflow to be executed, to a target machine for authorization and execution.

Authorization and authentication for recurring workflows

When a user inputs an action request, such as a requested command, to be performed on a target machine, a management system receives the request and verifies it with a separate authentication and permission system. The verified command request is sent to the target machine. An authentication worker on the target machine accesses a set of policies, local to the target machine, to identify a least privileged execution environment in which the requested command can be performed. The authentication worker on the target machine launches the requested command within the identified least privileged execution environment on the target machine.

Security and permission architecture

Comparing recurring processes. A method includes automatically identifying a plurality of recurring process instances having one or more commonalities. The method further includes displaying the plurality of recurring process instances having one or more commonalities to a user in a user interface. The method further includes receiving user input at the user interface selecting a first recurring process instance from the plurality of recurring process instances. The method further includes receiving user input at the user interface selecting a second recurring process instance from the plurality of recurring process instances. The method further includes automatically identifying differences in the first and second recurring process instances. The method further includes presenting the differences in the graphical user interface to the user.

Analysis of recurring processes

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