The WFMC has a list of tools here:
http://www.wfmc.org/standards/conformance.htm
The only one I'm familiar with (at a conceptual level) is Action
Technologies' solution, which is mainly of note for the way it can
recursively embed human-mediated and automated processes within a
single workflow.
There are also a whole raft of BPEL-based workflow modelling tools
entering the market. On .net, there is also the WWF, which stands for
Windows Workflow Foundation, and is a set of core workflow modelling
technologies (rather than a bunch of blokes in silly outfits
pretending to hurt each other).
Another "tool" is process modelling notation, such as BPMN (http://
www.bpmi.org/) or the UML 2.0 business process schemes. The JISC
project COVARM applied a UML business process modelling technique to
mapping course validation workflows, and is worth a look. UML process
modelling can be done with regular UML drawing and modelling tools
such as MagicDrawUML, Poseidon, Eclipse+EMF, Visio, etc.
Anyway, hope this is of use...
-Scott
On 30 Jan 2006, at 15:07, Steve Loddington wrote:
> Dear Colleagues
>
> I am currently looking into workflows as part of the Rights and
> Rewards in Blended Institutional Repositories Project (http://
> rightsandrewards.lboro.ac.uk). Part of this research focuses on the
> mapping of both research and teaching material workflows and I am
> investigating into using some workflow mapping software for this.
> The only one I am aware of at present is iThink - http://
> www.iseesystems.com/Softwares/Business/ithinkSoftware.aspx .
>
> Does anyone have experience of some other software of this kind or
> could recommend any that have been particularly useful in the past?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Steve Loddington
>
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