The kBOS workflow engine supports the automation of enterprise business processes and allows processes to flow throughout the enterprise, and between the enterprise and its external business partners and interested parties.

As shown below, work flow is designed by selecting organisational unit, role and task that define the nodes between which a business document flows. The rules are then added to specify applicable conditions. The kBOS work flow approach is unique in allowing the specification of information flow not only in accordance with the process status but also according to the organisational design.
Work flow is defined using the work flow designer. 

                             
           

The kBOS Process Agents framework supports drectly ABIS solutions

The kBOS Process Agents framework provides the means for the kBOS Platform to interface and interact with external applications, events, data or web services (hereafter called ‘external providers’) by integrating them in a Process Definition.

The sole purpose of an Agent is to enable the kBOS Platform to communicate with an external provider in a preconfigured and manageable way, within a process definition.

There are different types of agents. Agents important to ABIS include: