Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Software Engineering Company, Ltd.

Osamu Tosaka

Yoshiki Matsuda

Shunsuke Akifuji

Masato Tamaki

Toshiaki Sakaguchi

Atsushi Aoki

Yoko Seki

Shigeki Ishihara

In a workflow system capable of simultaneously executing a plurality of business processes, an exception handling unit extracts an exception condition from a business status definition table and transfers the exception condition to a status watcher, the status watcher refers to data contained in an application data base and, when there is a change meeting a predetermined exception condition, transfers the change to a user retrieval unit, the user retrieval unit refers to a working data base to retrieve a user and gives information to the computer of the related user, whereby, when one of interdependent business processes is discontinued, information that the business process is discontinued is given to the computers executing the other interdependent business processes.

Workflow system, workflow control method and storage medium

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Yokohama, Japan

Osamu Tosaka