I-D ACTION:draft-sreddy-swap-requirements-00.txt

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	Title		: Requirements for Simple Workflow  
                          Access Protocol - SWAP
	Author(s)	: S. Reddy
	Filename	: draft-sreddy-swap-requirements-00.txt
	Pages		: 10
	Date		: 05-May-98
	
    Workflow is intuitive and powerful paradigm for capturing business
    processes, reasoning about them, and process specifications to
    produce corresponding implementations that are supported by the
    information systems. There has been a growing acceptance of workflow
    technology in numerous application domains such as
    telecommunications, software engineering, manufacturing, production,
    finance and banking, laboratory sciences, healthcare, shipping and
    office automation.
 
    In the last few years, pervasive network connectivity, exploded
    growth of internet and web technologies has changed our
    computational landscape to distributed, heterogenous and network
    centric computing model from centralized, desktop-oritented, and
    homogenous computing. This has raised challenging requirements for
    workflow technologies in terms being required to support
    heterogenous, distributed computing infrastructures,
    interoperability, scalability and availability.
 
    The main objective of this document is to identify various business
    scenarios, requirements for internet based Workflow Access Protocol.

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