This chapter's focus has been on SharePoint 2010 workflows, the basics behind workflow design, and the authoring tools available to you for SharePoint 2010 workflow development. This chapter has explained the comparisons of the authoring tools and options available to you in the different SharePoint versions, and how to integrate workflow modeling using Visio 2010 with SPD. Workflow design is a vast and complex topic, the nuances of which are mostly outside the scope of this book. However, you should be familiar enough with the basic principles to be able to start architecting workflow solutions for your organization's simpler business processes.

The next chapter discusses Office 2010 integration to SharePoint and the benefits of documents stored in SharePoint.