Architecture

• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Q-flow is based on a four level architecture, with no installation needed by the web client. Q-flow separates in its presentation layer that data from their format, by establishing two sublayers in the user interface. This makes it possible for Q-flow to connect to several other systems based on XML exchange and, at the same time, makes web interface format and interface independent from the application code.
• Q-flow includes skins and themes that implement one of these sublayers. These skins and themes can easily be personalized by personnel who are competent in software and who can thus completely modify the appearance of the website. The Q-flow architecture allows the personalization of the web site to be taken to a more advanced level, by making it possible to adapt the web site to the company through the use of Q-flow’s well defined components and interfaces, which allow the website’s logic to be added to existing systems.
• Transactional operations, which are achieved by storing the workflow information in a relational database instead of using the mail system. This allows mail messages to be reconstructed in case one or more mailboxes are lost and need to be rebuilt.

Extensibility

• Definition of new steps
• Ability to design custom digital dashboards for users, by means of web parts.
• Ability to start workflows and respond tasks from external applications
• Ability to modify web site’s the appearance through skins and themes
• Q-flow provides web parts that can be exported and imported from any site that uses the ASP .NET 2.0 web part model, for example Sharepoint Portal Server 2007, or an intranet portal designed with this technology