RunaWFE is a business process management system.
RunaWFE uses its own solutions and borrows some ideas from the JBoss jBPM project. It has a set of additional components. These components provide convenience to the end-user.
RunaWFE is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Convenient user web-interface – users can receive, filter, perform and delegate the tasks of business process instances, start new business process instances, view the properties of started business process instances, deploy new business process definitions (if permission is granted) and administrators can: create /remove actors and groups, include /exclude actors to/from groups, grant permissions on system objects to actors and groups, forcibly stop business process instances, add/change actors substitutions rules.
- Developer Studio (graphical designer).
- Bots for automatic task execution.
- Flexible system of role executors determination.
- Simple integration with relational databases.
- Web services support.
- Portlets support.
- Alfresco integration.
- Security system, which allows LDAP/MS Active Directory integration.
- Heterogeneous enterprise applications integration is possible.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Windows
- Internationalization support – Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
Website: runawfe.org
Support: SourceForge Project Page
Developer: Process Technologies Ltd
License: GNU Lesser General Public License

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