Even today, they use it for various occasions such as "mail membership recruitment", "application of the gift campaign" or "Issuing coupon". In a peculiar case, they use it for "notification of out of paper of the MFP" in some companies
The following is a simple business process of "a Workflow starts with email receiving". You can manage a series of work after receiving an email in status. It may be applied to various businesses with a small enhancement.
In this sample, a flow of the followings is defined; (1), auto replying a thank you email, (2), qualifying the applicant, (3), registering the applicant to the list. As a matter of course, it is also good to describe an HTML to induce to the registration site.
[Email Registration flow]
[Email Registration flow: "1. Registration Approval" screen]
By the way, you might want to connect this flow automatically to "following lead flow" when increasing registrations that are needed support by the Sales force. In such a case, you would better automate the connection between business processes. Connect Workflows with placing an intermediate event for HTTP communication. It is not only to lead to a large labor saving, but also can prevent operation errors.
In addition, you can build these structures for free by using Questetra BPM suite. However, in order to prevent a large amount of processes would unintentionally be started by runaway of the external system or misconfiguration, there is a system limit of "100 process starts in 15 minutes". Please be careful about it.
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- Business Template (.qar): Email Registration flow
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