Forms and Flows is a process automation platform offered as a free open-source product allowing organizations to do more in less time.
What makes it special?
Here are some of the platform’s key capabilities:
- Supports complex processes, including loops and multiple actions per step.
- Configure forms instead of building them from scratch.
- Built-in Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
- Highly configurable user interface, like its language and branding aspects.
- Custom forms which allow for features not available in the platform.
- Scales to hundreds of processes and many thousands of process instances (runs).
- Deep linking for direct navigation to actions and runs.
- Maintenance mode for controlled platform updates.
Documentation is offered on this website.
Core elements
A process is considered to be a set of actions (forms) and automations (flows).
Submitting a form triggers a flow.
Using the platform, organizations can easily automate processes by:
- configuring the forms.
- adding their own flows.
In practice, forms as well as flows have many similar and reusable parts which allows for rapid and flexible process automation allowing organizations to do more in less time.
The platform is offered via distributions where each distribution depends on its own technology stack.
The platform is built using a set of design rules. These design rules are based on a set of design principles and a feature matrix. This all together is called the Universal Process Automation Model (UPAM).