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In the case of changes to the business processes, the changes can be made on a running workflow and will not lead to any downtime of the processing, it will become active the next time the workflow is started.
To ease the rollout of new configurations, multiple configuration spaces can be used in production to keep the running configurations separated from configurations that are being staged for production. This means that production servers can be updated with new configurations while the running configurations stay unchanged.
When the new configuration is ready to be taken into production, only a minimal downtime will be needed even for extensive changes.
Workflow Mapping to Execution Contexts
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