148 Patterns: Building Serial and Parallel Processes for IBM WebSphere Process Server V6
10.2.1 Vocabulary
The vocabulary used to describe the business processes has not been
standardized. You will find the same words are given different, specific meanings
by different authors. We define our terms here.
Patterns for e-business uses the term
process to generically describe a business
process. A process may or may not contain human interaction, but generally you
can presume that if it includes human interaction, it is designated by the more
specific term
workflow.
The term
workflow is used to indicate that human interaction is required to
complete some of the activities described in the business process. Since a
workflow is a specific type of bu ...