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by giantg2 1441 days ago
We had a large application that handled work items and routed them through business process maps. The backend was FileNet (and Oracle), which provided a GUI to define the workflows. Then we wrote a UI app that dynamically built parts of the page based on the xml fields present on the FileNet workitem.

It worked well and saved a ton of time by almost eliminating UI elevations. Most workflow changes were very fast too due to the simplicity of the FileNet GUI. Initial setup takes time, and there aren't a lot of FileNet resources out there. For those reasons I'd hesitate to recommend it.