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AVEVA Work Tasks

Score9.3 out of 10

4 Reviews and Ratings

What is AVEVA Work Tasks?

AVEVA Work Tasks (formerly Wonderware Skelta) provides digital transformation of operational processes with a business process and advanced workflow management system, designed to enable better collaboration between people and automation systems. Consistency and automation of electronic workflows with detailed execution records offers significant operational efficiency improvement potential, and reduces the cost of compliance. The user can orchestrate processes across functional domains, including integrating connected plant assets and systems with business functions.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Process designer

    Web-based tool for creating and customizing web process models

    Category average: 8.3

  • SOA support

    Support for reusable services to be built into process design

    Category average: 7.3

  • Form builder

    Integrated form design tool

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Support for modeling languages

    Support for modeling languages like BPML, BPEL, and BMMN.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Standard reports

    The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.

    Category average: 7.1

  • Custom reports

    Users can create custom reports.

    Category average: 7

Perfect complement to other AVEVA products

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Work Tasks primarily to implement custom processes on top of other AVEVA products, this is the extensibility layer for their other products, such as production management. We implemented of month processes as well as daily adjustments and others where the built in functionality doesn't quite meet our needs. We also implement miscellaneous manual processes in this tool, those that require some sort of integration or database access in the back end.

Pros

  • Wysiwyg form editor
  • Desktop and mobile display
  • Extensibility with JavaScript and c#
  • Web API calls

Cons

  • Workflow editor user interface, a little clunky and has a learning curve
  • Permissions model is complex
  • Themes and corporate branding requires detailed css
  • Upgrades require very thorough testing of developed artefacts

Return on Investment

  • We have built our entire EOM reconciliation process for production management, this is not possible without Work Tasks
  • We have complete standalone processes and applications built in Work Tasks, where complex steps and integrations are required. It is faster and cheaper than multiple bespoke products
  • The API integration has allowed us to tie applications together where user input is required and middleware doesnt quite work

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Power Apps and SAP Integration Suite