International Business Machines Corporation

Yo Murai

Hiroyuki Akatsu

Masao Yamada

Kenji Eda

Yasuharu Yada

Teruaki Okano

A system and method for managing a workflow are provided. A system for managing a workflow in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: a storage unit for storing, as an access history for each of at least one artifact, identification information of a business process that has accessed the artifact; a request reception unit for receiving an access request to an artifact from a user; a first notification unit for retrieving an access history corresponding to a first artifact from the storage unit on a condition that a first access request received from the user corresponding to a first business process is an update request of the first artifact, and for notifying a user corresponding to the business process that is identified in the retrieved access history that the first artifact is to be updated; and a history adding unit for adding identification information of the first business process to the access history corresponding to the first artifact in response to an accessing of the first artifact based on the first access request.

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Yo Murai