Rules integration
The Rules Connectivity Framework allows rule engine vendors
to integrate with the workflow environment. By integrating rules,
a workflow author can incorporate logic defined in business rules
into a workflow. The business rules are created and deployed by using
rules software from other vendors.
Component Integrator FileNet P8 provides
an extensible integration capability for calling any component from
a workflow step. For example, from a step you can make several calls
to a Java™ class that updates
information in a corporate customer database. This integration model
makes it easy to create new, or reuse existing, components that a
business analyst can then use in the graphical Process Designer tool.
Process orchestration
Process orchestration lets you integrate and coordinate
web service operations across and beyond the enterprise. Orchestration allows you
to tie XML web services interfaces into end-to-end processes, which
can include and combine internal (front and back office) and external
(partner or customer) processes. Parts of each single orchestrated
process can be executed in separate business process management or
workflow engines, each under the control of different areas of an
organization, and each with different sets of users and domains of trust.