International Business Machines Corporation

Sharon McKenna Sanders

Wayne Frederick Miller

Alan Tsu-I Yaung

Kenneth Carlin Nelson

Ying-Pong Chen

Rupa Bhaghavan

Fang-Yi Wang

Gregory Scott Johnston

Various embodiments of a method, apparatus and article of manufacture provide a decision point in a workflow system comprising a server and at least a first client work node. A decision point work node is provided at the server. A SQL expression which is associated with the decision point work node and the first client work node is generated. The server determines whether to route a work package to the first client work node based on the SQL expression.

Use of generated SQL for evaluation of decision point rules in a workflow system

Devices, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for providing a graphical workflow programming environment for routing documents. First a workflow design platform is provided that comprises a process canvas for receiving at least one graphical workflow programming object. Next, a graphical representation of the graphical workflow programming object is provided where the graphical representation is adapted to be selected by an administrator of the graphical workflow programming environment and inserted into the process canvas, wherein the graphical workflow programming object comprises a graphical decision point that is adapted to route the documents based on contents of the documents.

Content aware workflow builder and workflow engine

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Los Gatos, CA, United States of America

Sharon McKenna Sanders