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Workflow is an orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.

Workflow

An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.

Workflow Automation

The automation of a business process, in whole or part, during which documents, information or tasks are passed from one participant to another for action, according to a set of procedural rules.

Example

In Informatica PowerCenter(ETL Tool), a workflow is a set of instructions that describes how and when to run tasks related to extracting, transforming, and loading data. It can be created, scheduled and run. The set of instructions can be such as sessions, emails and shell commands. The tools for the development are like - Task developer - for tasks you want to accomplsh in the workflow, Worklet Designer - object that groups a set of task for reusability and Workflow designer - for connecting tasks.

Reference

Business Process Management (BPM) Center of Excellence (CoE)

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How can you program if you're blind?

Sight is one of the senses most programmers take for granted. Most programmers would spend hours looking at a computer monitor (especially during times when they are in the zone), but I know there are blind programmers (such as T.V. Raman who…
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What Git branching models work for you?

Our company is currently using a simple trunk/release/hotfixes branching model and would like advice on what branching models work best for your company or development process. Workflows / branching models Below are the three main descriptions of…
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"git pull" or "git merge" between master and development branches

I have my master branch and a develop branch for working on a few changes. I need to merge changes from master into develop, but will eventually merge everything from develop into master. I have two different workflows in mind: git pull origin…
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When to use Windows Workflow Foundation?

Some things are easier to implement just by hand (code), but some are easier through WF. It looks like WF can be used to create (almost) any kind of algorithm. So (theoretically) I can do all my logic in WF, but it's probably a bad idea to do it for…
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Git: Set up a fetch-only remote?

When I run git remote -v in one of my Git repositories that has a remote(s) configured, I see that each remote has both fetch and push specs: $ git remote -v ssh://host/path/to/repo (fetch) ssh://host/path/to/repo…
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To Workflow or Not to Workflow?

I am responsible for a team of developers who will are about to start development of a light weight insurance claims system. The system involves a lot of manual tasks and business workflows and we are looking at using Windows Workflow (.NET 4.0).…
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Proper way to create dynamic workflows in Airflow

Problem Is there any way in Airflow to create a workflow such that the number of tasks B.* is unknown until completion of Task A? I have looked at subdags but it looks like it can only work with a static set of tasks that have to be determined at…
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ipynb import another ipynb file

Interactive Python (ipython) is simply amazing, especially as you are piecing things together on the fly... and does it in such a way that it is easy to go back. However, what seems to be interesting is the use-case of having multiple ipython…
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How can I get my C code to automatically print out its Git version hash?

Is there an easy way to write C code that can access its Git version hash? I wrote software in C to collect scientific data in a laboratory setting. My code records the data it collects in a .yaml file for later analysis. My experiments change from…
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Importing modules in Python - best practice

I am new to Python as I want to expand skills that I learned using R. In R I tend to load a bunch of libraries, sometimes resulting in function name conflicts. What is best practice in Python. I have seen some specific variations that I do not see a…
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How can I reset the iOS Simulator from the command line?

I need to reset the iPhone Simulator a lot, and haven't found a way to do it without using the mouse. It's a small thing, but I'm really sick of doing it and would love to have a way to do this using a keyboard shortcut. Even better would be a way…
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How can Gulp be restarted upon each Gulpfile change?

I am developing a Gulpfile. Can it be made to restart as soon as it changes? I am developing it in CoffeeScript. Can Gulp watch Gulpfile.coffee in order to restart when changes are saved?
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How do you learn proper Emacs?

I am about to learn Emacs, have been through the tutorial and borrowed the O'Reilly book on Emacs. But the question still is - how do you learn good Emacs workflow? I guess, you don't use Emacs as you'd use, for example, Vim. This question seems…
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What is the difference between git push and git pull?

I just stumbled over something peculiar today. I asked a co-worker at my summer job to help me set up a new remote git repo for my code and there was a lot of confusion about what he did and what I wanted to do. I asked him to send over his config…
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What is in your JavaScript toolchain?

I am looking to start writing a sophisticated application in JavaScript to run on the web. I've written little bits of throwaway code in JavaScript before, using the DOM directly and a little bit of jQuery. But this is the first time I'm looking to…
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