content/introduction/how-can-taverna-help-me.md

Title:     How can Taverna help me?
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If you need to perform multi-step or repetitive analysis that involves invoking several services, 
   or if you find yourself copying and pasting results between different Web pages or services, 
   and would like to automate this process, then Taverna could be suitable for you.

Taverna allows you to define how your data flows between the services, 
   without having to worry how you are going to invoke these services. 
It will automate and pipeline processing of your data.

Taverna can help you convert data from one format to another in cases when the services you are using are not 100% compatible 
   and shield you from services’ (non-)interoperability horror.

Taverna allows for rapid incorporation of  new 
service
s without 
coding.
 It is not 
restricted 
to 
predetermined 
services; it provides access 
to 
local 
and 
remote
 resources 
and 
analysis 
tools – 3500+ services available on start
up.

Taverna will provide you with trackable results of your experiments using the OPM (Open Provenance Model) standard. Workflow provenance gives a detailed trace of workflow execution: which services were executed, when, which inputs were used and what outputs were produced.

Taverna lets you do collaborative science – share your workflows on myExperiment through the Taverna Workbench and search and download workflows from your fellow scientists.

Read more about the [characteristics and features of Taverna](/introduction/taverna-features).