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Friday, July 07, 2006

How does Oracle Workflow differ from Oracle Alert?

Oracle Alert is a database event detection tool. Oracle Workflow technology enables automation and continuous improvement to business processes, routing information according to user-defined business rules. Oracle Alert is designed to detect database events, Oracle workflow is designed to manage the execution complex of business processes that result from database events.
Oracle Alert does contain some workflow type features such as response processing, that allow a sequence of actions to be taken depending on a users response to a message. Oracle Workflow's response processing capabilities are more advanced than Oracle Alert and it is recommended to use Oracle Workflow for new development.

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