YAWL developer Lachlan Aldred said through the selective use of open source software, YAWL offers a lot of support to business analysts and managers, and without it the project would be "years behind" where it is today.

"YAWL provides a conceptually strong, flexible, enterprise-grade workflow-BPM platform that managers and business analysts can exploit to gain efficiency improvements for their business activities, and provide better quality of service to their customers," Aldred said. "YAWL also provides strong opportunities for monitoring processes, integrating with remote processes, corporate governance and conformance with best practices."

The YAWL project is now seeking industry partners interested in contributing to the initiative.