Workflow orchestration
Coordinating multiple workflows to achieve a complex multi-step business outcome. Example: a new client onboarding orchestrates 12 separate automations CRM setup, tool provisioning, Slack channel creation, invoice generation, and email sequences in the right order.
Expert insight
Orchestration (a central system explicitly directing which workflow runs when) is easier to monitor and reason about than choreography (workflows independently reacting to events with no central coordinator), but it also creates a single point of coordination that needs its own reliability, the trade-off is between visibility and a potential bottleneck.
In a real workflow
A main workflow coordinates enrichment, scoring and routing sub-workflows and handles their errors.
Common mistakes
- Orchestration logic spread across many places.
- No retry strategy at the orchestration level.
Complexity level
Requires some familiarity with automation concepts.
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