Process Step Instance

Process Step Instance

Business

An executed step in a Business Process. A Process Step Instance specifies the actual inputs to and outputs from an occurrence of a Process Step.

Each Process Step is the use of a Process Design in a particular context (e.g. within a specific Business Process). At the time of execution a Process Step Instance specifies the actual instances of input objects (for example, specific Data Sets, specific Variables) to be supplied. 

Each Process Step Instance may produce unique results even though the Process Step remains constant.

Even when the inputs remain the same, metrics such as the elapsed time to complete execution of process step may vary from execution to execution. For this reason, each Process Step Instance details of inputs and outputs for that instance of implementing the Process Step.

In this way it is possible to trace the flow of execution of a Business Process through all the Process Steps which were involved.