Alfresco Process Automation (APA) is a low-code application development platform available as a service on Alfresco Cloud. It has been designed for organizations to quickly and easily create intelligent solutions that orchestrate and streamline from simple to complex content-centric business processes. It is meant to serve multiple business domains and its cloud-native architecture offers maximum availability and dynamic scaling.

It is composed of three main components: ​

• The Modeling Application, where professional developers and non-technical power users create, update, and release applications.

• The Admin Application, where administrators deploy applications, manage user permissions, and monitor deployed applications.

• The Digital Workspace, where end-users can start new content-centric processes, and manage their work.