The term workflow refers to the systematically designed flow of work in business processes. This technical term stands for the entirety of processing and transporting documents, which are, after all, the subject of business processes. Likewise, the term workflow takes into account the automation of the control of data transport from person to person, whereby documents are passed from processor to processor and individual data is added to the documents. The automatic linking of different applications, as well as the reuse and joint use of data, are important synergy effects. Workflows help to avoid idle times, duplicate work, media discontinuity and other sources of loss. (Source: GPM)