Workflow Framework Overview
Author:
Fluent Commerce
Changed on:
6 June 2024
Overview
The Engine (aka ) is the engine that drives the Fluent platform. The Engine enables business , automation, and underpins the specific feature sets and functionality for each of the Fluent apps. Additionally, the Engine is built to be highly scalable, and provide high-performance execution across any domain.
Key points
- Cloud-native, high availability, scale-on-demand workflow execution.
- Pre-built, customizable workflows delivering capabilities across each of the Fluent App domains.
- Rich Rule Library containing reusable rules across each of the Fluent Apps.
- Software Development Kit (SDK) and Developer Tooling, enabling the implementation of custom rules and integrations.
- Business Tools to manage, configure, and implement workflow and process automation.
Check a video of the Engine Overview below.
Rubix Orchestration Engine Overview
Understand the role and purpose of the Engine through this 3-minute overview video.
Business Benefits
- Enables smart automation of processes and workflows across omni-channel commerce domains.
- Delivers business-friendly tools to create and manage workflows significantly reduces costs and provides efficiencies to business operations.
- Integration costs and time to market are significantly reduced, and tools that enable ongoing automation management enable real agility to adapt to market conditions immediately.
Included Functionality
The Engine has a rich rule library and pre-built workflows, including industry-tested reusable rules for Management, Store , Product Availability, , and Insights. Reference Modules that contain sample Workflows to use as is or as a starting point for customization.
How to use it?
The Workflow Builder is the business user-friendly user interface that manifests the Engine. The Builder is used to create, configure, view, and edit workflows and automation processes.
The Editor of the Builder can be used to Integrate user-driven activities with rules and automation. Additionally, the Editor provides configurations for adding buttons to Fluent OMS or Fluent Store applications, that automated behavior.
Using the Builder, business users can customize the pre-built workflows with additional rules from the Library, or reconfigure the existinthatg rules.
Developers can customize, extend, and integrate additional capabilities and rules into workflows with the Rules SDK. The Rules SDK provides Java Developers with the ability to build custom client-specific business logic, rules, and integrations into a which can be uploaded and used in the Fluent Platform.
Learn more about how the Engine works here.
