1. Ryan Andrus Staff Engineer, Architecture Team Charles Schwab

2. A.K.A. Ryan Vice RyanViceTX@Gmail.com http://www.RyanVice.net 2010 Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems MSDN Moderator for WF Contributor to Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 Cookbook by Packt Publishing

4. What benefits does WF offer? How will it simplify enterprise development? Why the new rewrite of WF? Why is Microsoft putting so many resources behind WF?

5. Account Creation Income Tax Information Submission Management of Assigning of Clients to Accountants Managing the Approval Process Notifications

6. Build our workflow logic in a unified way Execute our workflow logic in a distributed way, across several servers Allow for easily sharing of and persisting of state without having to worry about concurrency Allow for easily creating events or messages that can drive business logic including support for scheduling these events or messages Allow us to track the history of an account

7. A re-hostable designer to allow us to create administration tools for visualizing and managing our workflow logic Support for parallel processing of task Support for creating our own workflow constructs (or activities) to allow us to model our own domain specific languages Allow for easily creating events or messages that can drive business logic including support for scheduling these events or messages An extensible architecture that allows you to provide your own implementations for things like state persistence, workflow execution tracking, threading, etc…

8. Integration of WCF and WF Allows for using WCF to drive WF logic