Advanced workflow features

Deadline Tracker lets you manage your progress toward meeting your delivery deadlines. If you have service level agreements with your customers, this feature helps you make sure that their jobs are on schedule to be completed on time. You can see when jobs are behind schedule or risk missing their deadlines. This information helps operators prioritize work and act to bring jobs back on track for on-time delivery. You can monitor expected work (jobs that you expect to receive at set intervals). If the jobs do not arrive in time, you can inform the sender.

The Order Management feature adds functions and objects that let you group jobs and process them as a group. With this feature, you can manage the orders for your customer to make sure that orders are on schedule and completed on time. You can see when orders are behind schedule or at risk to miss their due date. This information helps operators set order priority and act to bring orders back on track for on-time delivery.

You can manually submit job files through the Submit Job portlet, or automatically create an order by submitting an XML file from your order management system.

The Web Services Enablement feature lets you call REST and SOAP web services from your production workflows to exchange data with third-party applications.

The feature adds support for input devices, step templates, and notification objects that can send web service requests.