You will find many Business Process Management platforms in the marketplace. We are confident, though, that few of them will compare with the rich features, power and sheer robustness of Skelta Workflow.NET 2004. What's more, it's very competitively priced and comes with quality technical support. A highly configurable .Net based workflow framework with a powerful, fully embeddable rules-based engine at its core, Skelta Workflow.NET 2004 provides a customizable, extendible and scalable architecture for a variety of Business Process Management initiatives. With the help of Service Oriented Architecture, Web services, Application Hooks and Process Objects, Skelta Workflow.NET seamlessly integrates with other industry leading software.

1. Quick and painless integration

Drop and link ASP.NET server controls enable and quick integration of Skelta components into a variety of BPM applications. Once embedded, components stay completely hidden from end users of the application. Templates provided can be modified to retain usage characteristics, look and feel of the application in which Skelta is embedded.

2. Powerful engine

Powerful, fully embeddable rules-based workflow engine with clustering and active-active load-balancing mechanism enables easy scaling up of performance to meet growing needs of distributed enterprises. Severs can be dynamically added or removed.

3. Supports applications, workflows and workflow instances without limit

Causes minimum overheads while executing workflows quickly and reliably. Supports unlimited number of applications, workflows, and workflow instances for each application. Parallel execution of workflows and synchronization of workflows with alerts to appropriate resources possible.

4. Real-time information

Delivers information for business activity monitoring in real-time. Allows visual display of workflows in progress, deals with exception conditions and enables generation of comprehensive reports.

5. No programming knowledge required

No programming knowledge required for building, deployment or dynamic modification of workflows.

6. Complete audit trails on workflows

Offers complete audit trails of activities within workflows and visual monitoring of tasks and issues

7. Connects to multiple databases

Provides ready connectivity to databases such as MS SQL and Oracle, eliminating dependence on any one database. Allows for development of custom resource handlers to connect to complex databases.

8. Security safeguards

Support for Active Directory® facilitates proper identification and authentication of users in workflow processes, and ensures that only authenticated users are allowed to participate in processes for which they are authorized. Also offers connectivity to other user resources such as XML and Database table. (8)

9. Seamless integration with .Net centric solutions

Open architecture exposed by XML and Web services facilitates seamless integration with .Net centric solutions, enabling easy exchange of data and processes throughout the organization and beyond.

10. Anytime, anywhere access

Being Web-based, allows users anytime, anywhere access to their list of tasks and status of workflows.

11. Intuitive reports

Equipped to generate comprehensive reports on workflows, enabling checks on performance benchmarks, trends, workload, and other aspects of business processes in real time. Query engine provided enables report customization.

12. Multi-language, multi-culture compatible

By virtue of being built on the .NET Framework, Skelta can be quickly localized for different cultures and languages, extending its appeal to businesses across the world .

13. Easy communication

Notifications/alerts can be sent by email, as short text messages on mobiles, and via standard instant messengers.

14. Import & export of workflow definitions

Allows export of workflow definitions to XML files. Exported definitions can be manually edited or moved to another database. Import of workflow definitions from XML files is also possible.

15. Low TCO and tangible ROI

Competitively priced, Skelta ensures a low TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) as it can be deployed on a Win XP Professional operating system, and offers tangible ROI.