Turn everyday business tasks into structured, compliant processes.
Next Casework gives structure to the important work that's too specific for your core systems, and too important to live in email, spreadsheets, and people's heads.
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Standardize how work gets done.
From employee, supplier, and customer onboarding to GDPR requests, contract renewals, complaints, and periodic reviews, Next Casework standardizes how work is distributed, completed, checked, and documented.
Start with built-in case types, not a blank page.
They cover the common business tasks, and you can define your own as needs change. Each one comes with its own instructions, checklists, and assignment policies, giving employees a clear, consistent way to handle each type of work.
Onboarding
Compliance and governance
Business operations
Consistent, but not rigid.
Every case follows the same three phases: Distribution, Casework, and Quality Assurance.
New cases are first distributed to the appropriate employees. Caseworkers then complete the required work before the case moves through quality assurance.
Each phase can contain multiple tasks involving different specialists. A phase cannot be completed until all required tasks are finished, but employees stay free to organize their own work within the phase.
You get standardization without rigid, step-by-step processes.
Guidance where the work happens.
Each case type can carry its own instructions and checklists to guide employees through the work. Mandatory items make sure critical steps happen; optional items allow flexibility where it fits.
Employees no longer have to remember every procedure or dig through emails and documents to work out what comes next.
That means more consistent execution, easier onboarding, and less dependence on a handful of specialists.
The right work reaches the right people.
Next Casework automatically assigns work by organizational role and responsibility.
Employees get the cases and tasks relevant to them, and role-based permissions keep sensitive work in authorized hands only. Automatic assignment cuts manual coordination and makes processes less dependent on specific people.
When employees change roles or the organization shifts, the process keeps running — no need to redesign how the work is done.
Everyone knows what's happening.
Dashboards give an up-to-date view of open and completed cases, and automatically recorded statistics let you follow workload and activity over time.
Instead of digging through inboxes, spreadsheets, and individual status reports, team leads see where work stands and where attention is needed.
A final check before every case closes.
Important work should not simply be marked as completed.
In the Quality Assurance phase, required tasks are marked complete, but QA can verify the decisions made and the documentation provided.
This creates a consistent separation of duties.
The audit trail builds itself.
Every significant action in a case is recorded automatically in the Next business log.
That gives a record of the work performed across the case, including completed checks and phases.
Together with role-based permissions, mandatory checklists, and the quality assurance phase, it gives you documented evidence that important processes were carried out according to established procedures.
The result is stronger compliance and far simpler internal and external audits.
Reorganize without starting over.
Next Casework standardizes processes independently of the people performing them.
Instructions capture how work should be done. Checklists define what must be completed. Role-based assignments set who is responsible. Dashboards show what is happening. The business log records what actually happened.
So important processes depend less on individual knowledge, and stay easier to maintain as employees, teams, business units, and subsidiaries change.
Part of the Next platform.
Next Casework is fully integrated with the rest of Next, and works directly with:
Next Contracts
Automate your contracts, from draft to renewal.
Draft contracts from your own templates
Speed up approvals with automated workflows
Sign with eIDAS-compliant e-signatures
Track every renewal and deadline automatically
Next Guidelines
Keep every policy current and acknowledged.
Draft, review, and approve before publishing
Show everyone one authoritative version
Track who has read each guideline
Flag outdated policies before they're a risk
Next eCMS
Every document in one place. Across every system you run.
Capture any format from any source
Govern retention and access automatically
Trace every change to the millisecond
Find any file in seconds
Next Requisitions
Control spending before it's committed.
Raise requisitions from built-in templates
Enforce four-eyes approval on every purchase
Apply Delegation of Authority automatically
Auto-approve and post matching invoices
Key benefits
- Standardize recurring business processes
- Replace processes managed in email and spreadsheets
- Guide employees with tailored instructions and checklists
- Assign work automatically by role and responsibility
- Reduce dependence on individuals and specialist knowledge
- Maintain a real-time overview of open cases and workloads
- Build quality assurance into important business processes
- Document completed work automatically
- Strengthen governance and compliance, and simplify internal and external audits
- Make organizational changes easier to manage
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