Govern and Control Every Process Across Your Organization
FlowForma® Governance provides IT with the functionality to empower process managers in a controlled manner.
Powering business critical processes for 300,000+ users
Empowering Users In A Controlled Environment
In today’s organizations, employees want self-service tools that help them work smarter, faster, and with less dependency on IT.
With FlowForma Process Automation, an all-in-one tool that combines AI, forms, workflow, analytics, and document generation, our customers are seeing first-hand the value of empowering business managers to design and deploy their own processes.
At the same time, we understand the importance of balance. That’s why we’re committed to supporting IT departments with the governance they need, ensuring FlowForma is used securely and consistently across the business, while still giving users the freedom to build and test in a safe, controlled environment.
Control Smarter Everywhere: FlowForma Governance in Action
HR Process Development
HR teams build processes in a sandbox. Once approved, IT reviews and promotes them to production via governed pipelines.
Procurement & Contract Approvals
Procurement teams create workflows, while governance ensures proper stakeholder reviews and that only validated versions are rolled out.
Compliance
Business units author processes related to compliance, but governance ensures that only approved versions are deployed, with proper versioning and audit trails.
Departmental Innovation
Departments (e.g. Finance, Operations) experiment with process improvements and then submit to IT for review and controlled release to the organization.
What Makes FlowForma Governance Unique
Citizen Developers
FlowForma Governance gives business users the freedom to design and deploy process automation solutions without needing technical skills.
IT as Gatekeeper
IT retains control as the gatekeeper of production environments, ensuring governance, compliance, and reduced operational risk.
Simple Deployment
Instead of manually configuring apps, lists, flows, and groups, deployments occur automatically at the click of a button, streamlining rollout across the organization.
Flexible Access
IT can quickly create sandboxes for process managers to test and refine solutions safely. Once validated, processes can be promoted into live environments for day-to-day use.
Why Organizations Choose FlowForma for Governance
Controlled Deployment
Processes are deployed in a controlled way
Empower IT
IT is empowered to govern the use of FlowForma across the business
Empower Users
Business managers can build, test, edit and deploy processes quickly and easily
Safe Testing
Process managers are easily provided with sandboxes in which to test their solutions
Improved Functionality
Improved functionality for those who want to use the tool company-wide
Increased Adoption
Increase product adoption across the organization
For us, it was about gaining further efficiencies and adopting an internet-first approach to cybersecurity. The ability to create workflows quickly with governance from IT, without being reliant on them, is critical as we seek to automate in other areas.
Shaun Bucknill
Acting Deputy CIO, Blackpool NHS Teaching Hospital
One of the biggest advantages was building on our existing systems while gaining far greater control. FlowForma’s powerful customization makes work easier across the business and makes my job easier too.
Robbie Molloy
Product Manager, Aon
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The major impact of using FlowForma is enabling all departments to be more efficient and have better visibility of what’s going on.
Shaun O’Donnell
IT Director, Coinford
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The ability to create workflows quickly, with governance from IT without being reliant on them, is critical. It’s a game-changer.
Martyn McKechnie
Head of Digital Identity, Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS
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AI process automation
Upload your existing documents, diagrams, or process notes; AI turns them into a working form and workflow automatically, ready to refine and launch.
Workflow and AI agents
A proven workflow engine to route and approve at scale, with AI agents that can complete tasks, check data, flag issues, and act on your behalf.
Governance
Full audit trails and controls over how processes run and how AI agents are allowed to act, so automation stays compliant, not just convenient.
Insights
Real-time visibility into every process, with AI automatically highlighting bottlenecks, delays, and trends so teams can act faster.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is FlowForma Governance
FlowForma Governance is a central management hub that enables IT teams to oversee how process automation is developed, tested and deployed across the organization. It provides controlled environments, deployment management and governance controls that allow business users to innovate while IT maintains security, compliance and operational oversight.
How does FlowForma balance citizen development with IT governance?
FlowForma empowers business users to build and improve processes using no-code tools, while IT retains control through governed environments, permissions, approval workflows and production deployment controls. This reduces IT backlogs without compromising security or compliance.
Can FlowForma support separate development, test and production environments?
Yes. FlowForma Governance supports a structured application lifecycle with separate sandbox, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and production environments. Business teams can develop and test new processes safely before IT reviews and promotes approved versions into production.
What are FlowForma sandboxes?
Sandboxes are isolated environments where business users can safely design, build and test new workflows without affecting live production processes. Once testing is complete, IT can review and promote approved solutions through governed deployment pipelines.
Who controls process deployment in FlowForma?
IT remains the gatekeeper for production deployments. Business users can design and refine workflows in sandbox environments, but only authorized administrators can approve and publish processes into live production, ensuring consistency and governance across the organization.
Can multiple departments build their own workflows?
Yes. HR, Finance, Procurement, Operations and other departments can independently create and improve business processes using FlowForma's no-code platform. Governance controls ensure all processes follow organizational standards before being released into production.
How does FlowForma improve compliance and audit readiness?
FlowForma Governance helps organizations maintain compliance through controlled deployments, version management, approval workflows and complete audit trails. Every process change is tracked, providing transparency for internal governance and regulatory requirements.
Does FlowForma Governance work with Microsoft 365?
Yes. FlowForma is built natively within Microsoft 365 and SharePoint. Governance capabilities work alongside your existing Microsoft Entra ID permissions, SharePoint security and Microsoft 365 governance policies, allowing organizations to automate processes while keeping data under their own control.
Is FlowForma Governance suitable for enterprise organizations?
Yes. FlowForma Governance is designed for organizations that need to scale process automation across multiple departments while maintaining enterprise security, compliance and operational control. It is particularly well suited to regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and the public sector.
Can FlowForma help standardize process automation across the organization?
Yes. FlowForma Governance enables IT to establish consistent standards for process design, testing and deployment across business units. This helps organizations scale automation while maintaining quality, reducing duplication and ensuring best practices are followed.
Scale automation and keep IT in control
See how FlowForma Governance lets business teams build their own processes while IT controls what reaches production.
