Designing a Process Flow

A process flow defines a set of steps that run a series of components or objects, including the data flows that define your extractions, transformation, and load logic. You can combine:

• A Start object with a schedule that defines when to run the process.
• Data Flow objects that indicate what data to extract and move from data sources to data targets.
• Email objects that notify users about the status of the process at specified points.
• Procedure objects that perform a variety of supplementary tasks.
• Connector objects, represented as arrows, that specify execution logic for the other objects included in the process flow.
• Variable objects to set the values for variables used in other objects.
• Group objects that specify the flow of a subset of objects within the total flow.