Related concepts
This section gives references to related concepts. See Adoption for additional high-level information.
Event Management
Event Management is the business rules engine of ION. It offers functionality to monitor business events that are based on pre-defined business conditions and alert users when exceptions take place. You can monitor application events published as XML messages of type Sync BOD.
See the "Event Management" section in the Infor ION User Guide for details.
Alarms
Alarms are user-defined monitors. You can define the business conditions for the monitoring rules and select the distribution list for the alerts that are created by the alarms.
See the "Alarms" section in the Infor ION User Guide for details.
Workflow
A workflow is a sequence of steps that completes a business goal. Workflow enables communication from an application to a user. For example, a workflow might present a document for approval or prompt the user to perform a task using a screen of an application.
See the "Workflow" section in the Infor ION User Guide for details.
Pulse BODs
The Pulse Engine manages the life cycle of alerts, tasks and notifications. When an application must create a task, alert or notification directly, it can publish one of the Business Object Document XML messages Process.PulseAlert, Process.PulseTask or Process.PulseNotification.
See Creating alerts, tasks, or notifications from an application in the Infor ION Development Guide for details.
Process API
The Pulse Engine manages the life cycle of alerts, tasks, and notifications. When an application must create a task, alert, or notification directly, it can call a create method from the ION Services Suite in the API Gateway process/application endpoint.
See Application Programming Interface (API) in the Infor ION Development Guide for details.