Everyone knows that Aras Innovator has a powerful workflow service/engine under the covers for complex business process management like enterprise engineering change, supplier corrective actions and other complicated processes.

What people sometime don’t realize is that Aras has very configurable and robust authentication capabilities as well that support workflow processes, both OOTB BPM and custom workflows. Dennis Lindinger from Razorleaf did a recent blog post titled, Electronic Signatures and Aras Authentication, where he explains a few use cases, provides some examples and scenarios and includes some insightful tips.

Here’s the intro paragraph from his post:

The Aras Innovator workflow engine has many options and features that enable the modeling of robust business processes in PLM. One of the options available is the capability to authenticate users before they can complete an activity. You may be asking, why would I want to authenticate a user in a workflow? Or, isn’t supplying a username and password when the user starts Innovator sufficient?  In many cases, enabling authentication in workflow is not necessary and login authentication is sufficient to monitor workflow activity actions.  However, some activities represent approvals or legal acknowledgments and can result in the release of parts (items), BOMs, and documents.  Depending on your business and your PLM strategy, these activities may require additional authentication to be in alignment with regulatory compliance requirements for providing electronic signatures.

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