Workflow Framework Overview
Author:
Fluent Commerce
Changed on:
6 June 2024
Overview
The Workflow Engine (aka Rubix) is the engine that drives the Fluent platform. The Workflow Engine enables business process orchestration, workflow automation, and underpins the specific feature sets and functionality for each of the Fluent apps. Additionally, the Workflow Engine is built to be highly scalable, and provide high-performance workflow 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 Rubix Orchestration Engine Overview below.
Rubix Orchestration Engine Overview
Understand the role and purpose of the Rubix Orchestration 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 Workflow Engine has a rich rule library and pre-built workflows, including industry-tested reusable rules for Order Management, Store Fulfillment, Product Availability, Global Inventory, 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 Workflow Engine. The Workflow Builder is used to create, configure, view, and edit workflows and automation processes.
The User Action Editor of the Workflow Builder can be used to Integrate user-driven activities with workflow rules and automation. Additionally, the User Action Editor provides configurations for adding buttons to Fluent OMS or Fluent Store applications, that trigger automated workflow behavior.
Using the Workflow Builder, business users can customize the pre-built workflows with additional rules from the Rule 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 plugin which can be uploaded and used in the Fluent Platform.
Learn more about how the Workflow Engine works here.
