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. Process owners and participants can monitor process instances and task instances.

The primary products used to monitor process instances and task instances are Monitor, Task Engine, Optimize for Process, and Business Console.