Keyflow 2.0 puts Microsoft's Exchange to work

Workflow vendor Keyfile Corp. last week released a second-generation client-side product for Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange Server that it claims will expand automated business processes such as loan approval, claims management and purchase order processing.

The software, Keyflow 2.0, integrates a new set of APIs and active agents with Exchange and its Outlook client to give customers that have standardized on a Microsoft infrastructure the ability to deploy workflow applications enterprisewide - a first, according to Keyfile.

Customers and industry analysts give Keyflow 2.0 generally high grades, while also citing room for improvement.

The APIs will allow developers to create programs that, among other things, launch...