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

• A Schedule object that defines when to run the process.
• Data Flow objects that indicate what data to extract and move from data sources to data targets.
• E-mail 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 (for example, what to do next when a step in the process succeeds or fails).
• 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 (for example, two objects in a group that must be processed simultaneously rather then sequentially, with the object that follows next, perhaps an e-mail notification, waiting until processing has been completed for both of the grouped objects).