Predictive workflow automation

Most workflow automation platforms focus on the sequence of tasks. Process Timeline takes a different approach by making time a fundamental part of the process.

Built into Process Director, Process Timeline combines business process management with project management principles to give you greater control over how activities are planned, executed and monitored. Process Timeline helps you:

• Accelerate process completion: Run independent activities in parallel instead of waiting for unrelated tasks to finish. This reduces unnecessary waiting time and process bottlenecks.
• Identify delays earlier: Predict when activities or entire processes are likely to miss their deadlines, often before the affected task has even started.
• Improve operational efficiency: Automatically initiate activities as soon as their dependencies and conditions are satisfied.
• Increase visibility and control: See the status, progress, and expected completion times of activities across each process.
• Respond proactively: Automatically notify participants, escalate tasks or reroute activities to help keep processes on track.
• Simplify process design: Create sophisticated, non-linear workflows using an intuitive Gantt-chart interface rather than complicated flowcharts.

Process Timeline models business processes in a Gantt-style designer.

Instead of complex flowcharts, list the activities, assign participants, define expected durations and specify the conditions that determine when each activity should start or be skipped.

As activities are completed, Process Director automatically evaluates the process and starts eligible activities without unnecessary delays.

Run activities in parallel to accelerate completion Traditional sequential workflows introduce unnecessary waiting time, especially when processes involve multiple departments, teams or external stakeholders.

Process Timeline is designed around parallel execution. Activities can run concurrently whenever their dependencies and start conditions are satisfied.

The workflow engine automatically manages dependencies between activities, progressing the workflow as soon as the relevant conditions are met.

Only Process Timeline offers the earliest possible notification that some future activity or task is predicted to be late – perhaps days or weeks (and many steps) before it has reached that point in the workflow.

Constantly assessing each running process to determine if any future activity is likely to be delayed, Process Timeline can notify you or take direct action to escalate or re-route activities to account for the predicted delay.

No other workflow automation software offers this innovative, patented technology.

Process Timeline provides a clear view of how individual activities and entire processes are progressing.

Its Gantt-style interface shows planned activity durations, dependencies, start dates and expected completion dates, making it easier to understand process status and identify potential issues. Process Timeline offers complete control over running processes with the ability to:

• Predict the completion time of any current or future activity
• Cancel an activity or process
• Reassign an activity to another user
• Restart an activity
• Monitor actual versus predicted execution times.

Notifications are sent to participants as each step starts. Tasks are added to the user’s task list in their web workspace.