Several instances of a business process or task can run at the same time. For example, your enterprise could hire several new employees at one time, and each new employee would trigger a new instance of the new employee process. For tasks, you could have a purchase order process that sends out an approval request task instance to three different managers. You administer business process models and task applications, but you monitor process instances and task instances.

The primary products process administrators use to administer business process models and task applications, and process owners and participants use to monitor process instances and task instances, are Monitor, Task Engine, and Business Console.