UC Davis IT Standards - Work Flow
UC Davis IT Standards - Work Flow (DRAFT)
Summary
UC Davis establishes middleware standards in order to foster interoperability, sharing, and reuse of application software within UCD, as well as with UCD's business and academic partners around the world. These standards also create a more uniform and integrated environment from an end-user's point of view, as well as enabling a common platform for policy compliance. This document establishes the Kuali Enterprise Workflow (KEW) component of Kuali Rice as a standard for applications that require work flow services.
Statement of Standard
Middleware at UC Davis is a collection of services offered over the Internet in support of applications that provide services to the UC Davis community. Standards are established for specific middleware components when use of alternative components by an application could negatively impact the interoperability, usability, or cost of those (or other) applications. Work flow is such a middleware component, as multiple work flow engines would likely cause end-users to learn and use some or all of those engines, increasing cost and reducing overall usability.
Applications that incorporate work flow functionality comply with this standard by utilizing the services of Kuali Enterprise Workflow (KEW), either via its Java API or its SOAP web services interfaces, as defined in Kuali Rice Documentation (1.0.0) and Kuali Rice 1.0.0 API.
Sample RFP Specification
UC Davis utilizes a common standard middleware layer for applications that interoperate with or are shared by other components of the UCD IT environment. Products and services that incorporate work flow functionality and are proposed in response to this RFP must comply with the requirements in "UC Davis IT Standards - Work Flow," which is available at https://confluence.ucdavis.edu/confluence/x/7RHT.