Virtually every business has large volumes of documents — from expense reports and purchase orders to travel requests — that flow through a work process. In a traditional workflow, each document routes through one department to the next, where an employee manually evaluates the information for review or further action. Many of these tasks are repetitive and time-consuming, yet vital to businesses that require detailed records be kept. Accurately tracking a document's progress from its originator to its final destination is known as document workflow management.