6. The Generic "Forms and Workflow"Application

An enormous number of applications can be modeled as "forms moving around within and between organizations"

Starting with a data entry form or an application, information flows through a set of business processes and their associated document types

"Approval" applications are even simpler; the successive document types differ only by the presence of an approver's signature

Much IT effort today involves "Webifying" existing applications to make them more available and usable