Process design, forms & approvals
How this is scored
Modelling the process people take part in: a visual designer or BPMN, forms, approval steps with roles and substitutes, deadlines and escalation, and versioning of a process that is already running — judged on whether a business owner can change a process without breaking the instances in flight.
0 — No human steps at all: neither forms nor approval steps, only machine-to-machine automation.
3 — A visual builder with branching and a simple approval or form step.
5 — A visual designer with conditions and parallel paths, forms and approval steps assigned to roles or groups, and deadlines or reminders for open tasks.
8 — BPMN 2.0 modelling or an equivalent documented notation, versions of a process kept with running instances on their original version, substitutes and escalation chains, multi-stage approvals with four-eyes rules, forms in German with validation and file upload, a task inbox for participants, and a test or simulation mode before publishing.
10 — The process is a governed asset: version history with diff and rollback, migration of running instances to a new version documented, process analytics on cycle time and bottlenecks per step, and the design documented well enough that a business team can maintain it without the vendor.
The Skeptic
No-code process modelling is documented, approval workflows reach people through email, mobile notifications and dashboards, and a customer quote says processes can be changed immediately without coding. We found no public information on deadlines, reminders, substitutes, four-eyes rules, a notation like BPMN, or what happens to running instances when a process changes. 3 4 5