Implementing Oracle Workflow

CERN (see [CERN]) is the world's largest physics research centre. Currently there are around 5,000 people working at the CERN site located on the border of France and Switzerland near Geneva along with another 4,000 working remotely at institutes situated all around the globe. CERN is currently working on the construction of our newest scientific instrument called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC); the construction alone of this 27-kilometre particle accelerator will not complete until 2005. Like many businesses in the current economic climate CERN is expected to continue growing, yet staff numbers are planned to fall in the coming years. In essence, do more with less. In an environment such as this, it is critical that the administration is as efficient as possible. One of the ways that administrative procedures are streamlined is by the use of an organisation-wide workflow system.