Subject Records can be associated with different Workflow types depending on the business process. There are two main patterns for how Subject Records relate to workflows:

Sequential Workflow Relationship

In this pattern, workflows are created in sequence, sharing the same Subject Record. For example, the Business-Application workflow is created and associated with a subject record. Once that workflow completes, then the subject record is associated with an Account-Provisioning workflow.

Independent Workflow Relationship

In this pattern, subject records are used for a single workflow. For example, an Account-Provisioning workflow is created and associated with a subject record. No other workflow is involved.

This latter case would be used when there is no need to use the Business-Application workflow to gather all the required information for a subject record.