Hey guys.
I was wondering if there's a way to easily leverage K2 in an application we need developed. It's basically a workflow that needs to happen automatically... but the participants are all mostly computers and software.
Specifically, a user submits a request via an online form to go get data. We don't house the data on-site (it's proprietary). We have a software program running on another server that runs a web service which can be called with parameters to request the data from the off-site location.
What we need is for when the user submits the request, the parameters get passed to the web service on the other server. The data could take a long time come back... and sometimes might fail. It'd really be good to have an escalation after, say, 1 hour that issues a retry or notifies the user that it failed, etc.
After the data does come back, we need an ETL process to run that moves the data into our on-site data environment. We then need the user to get notified that the data is available, and they can then go to our business intelligence reporting dashboard, and the reports they want will now be available for the data they requested.
The business also wants reporting to be available on the whole process... like how long activities in it are taking, how often diffferent aspects fail or have to be retried, etc... things that the OOB reports of K2 already can show.
Do I have options to try and leverage K2 here, and what's the best way to proceed?
