As companies grow and change, so do their needs and processes.  Workday's Business Process Framework provides configuration, execution, and monitoring of all the business processes and related real-world events managed in Workday. Each process can be configured and re-configured code-free, allowing business users to continually define and alter the business processes specific to their organization without the cost typically involved with workflow configuration and maintenance.

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Workday's Business Process Framework is one way in which Workday innovatively addresses a problem that traditional systems have failed to solve. Workday's business services include not only definitions for business transactions ("events") but also the workflows and processes these transactions link together ("business process definitions"). These business process definitions can be configured and adjusted on the fly without coding or Workday's involvement. This ensures the reality of the business is supported in Workday at a fraction of the cost and headache of traditional applications.

Workday's Business Process Framework offers a complete set of tools for configuring, executing, and monitoring the out-of-the-box business processes that Workday provides and the processes the business has configured to meet its specific needs:

• Use pre-defined business processes. Workday delivers over 100 pre-defined business process definitions, accelerating the implementation process and providing a starting point for any additional configuration.
• Re-configure processes whenever needed. Add or remove steps within a predefined process without writing any code. Any process can be applied to the entire enterprise or to specific organizations within an enterprise, allowing each part of the enterprise to automate each business process based on how they operate.
• Maintain rules, roles, and policy documents. Conditional rules and routing, a list of valid actions and roles that can be used in each process, configurable approvals, and the ability to attach documents describing corporate policy will help ensure proper routing of each step of a business process.
• Approvals and notifications in the right place at the right time. Users who fill the roles involved in a business process will see related information on their Workday homepages (e.g. Inbox, My Workday, and All About Me pages) and have the capabiltity to process approvals and "to-dos" from their iPhones. Users can set up notifications to receive email messages alerting them to either actions they should take or work that has happened. Workday also supports inbox delegation to one or multiple delegates.
• Report on process status. The Business Process Framework knows the status of all work in process and process details for all work completed. The result is reports that provide visibility across the organization into what processes are still awaiting action and those that are complete. 

By allowing your company to design the processes that work best for you, Workday's Business Process Framework is an integral core component of making your company more efficient and agile.

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