Blueprint of a Semantic Business Process-Aware Enterprise Information Architecture: The EIAOnt Ontology

2014 ◽  
pp. 520-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmood Ahmad ◽  
Mohammed Odeh
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Information Architecture ◽  
Enterprise Information

scholarly journals BPM and ECM: Similarities, differences, conceptual, and technological limits

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-105
Author(s):  
Marco Aurélio de Souza MENDES ◽  
Marcello Peixoto BAX
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Technological Support ◽  
Enterprise Content Management ◽  
Unstructured Information

Abstract Enterprise information architectures still do not deliver all the value that comes from integrating structured and unstructured information. Enterprise Content Management and Business Process Management were developed as autonomous disciplines. Thus, Enterprise Content Management still occurs without formally considering the business processes that generate and manipulate content, while Business Process Management initiatives arise without a documented treatment of materials produced by the processes. The non-integrated approach to these disciplines collaborates to reduce the potential benefits expected in Organizational Change Management programs. In such context, the article discusses the interrelation between Business Process Management and Enterprise Content Management, approaching from a historical view of these disciplines, their conceptual limits, technological support, and dialogues that would benefit both initiatives. The paper contributes to clarify a question still vague in the field of Information Management, which is how to integrate Business Process Management and Enterprise Content Management treating structured and unstructured information in a unified manner. It discusses how to approach this issue in a broad scope of IM by combining the concepts of Enterprise Content Management and Business Process Management. Based on a literature review, the paper analyzes and synthesizes experiences in Enterprise Content Management and Business Process Management acquired in the context of a project carried out in a Power Sector Company. The article reveals problems in separating approaches to Enterprise Content Management and Business Process Management. It shows the importance of an effort for integration and presents three instruments that promote the linkage of the two initiatives, approximating process offices and analysts’ information.

scholarly journals Relation between process and service logics

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-416
Author(s):  
Milan Mišovič ◽  
Jan Turčínek
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
General Context ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Enterprise Information Systems ◽  
Information Engineering

It is generally accepted that the process control of a small and medium-sized manufacturing business enterprise is the foundation of high quality care of firm’s business processes. Any business process is seen as an indivisible sequence of activity steps designed to perform complex business activities. In its statutory documents the company should have concise descriptions of at least the main processes, along with their contexts in a given department of the company and the employee position.The main business processes, of course many others, are not immutable, on the contrary, they are very often changing. Many processes occur, others are modified others disappear as antiquated and useless to support strategic business objectives. All this is a consequence of the firms’ effort needed to maintain competitiveness in the harsh and dynamic consumer market.Business processes are not isolated, many of them are part of a relatively large process chains, so-called enterprise services, see (Erl, 2005). The discipline of Software Engineering responded to the possibility of consolidating enterprise functionality with enterprise services with the method SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) leading to new applications for enterprise information systems.In contrast to business processes, business services are still not sufficiently recognized in the statutory documents of enterprises. Informaticians, producing software applications for enterprise information systems, must draw on company management knowledge relating to the general context and processes together with management to prepare business services. There are therefore more relevant questions based on the emergence of corporate services and information modeling in the discipline of Information Engineering. Acceptable responses are not included in a lot of publications or in publications of the doyen of SOA Thomas Erl, see (Erl, 2006) and thus the proposed SOA paradigm suffers from the same problem.The present article tries to give an answer to those questions and show the relevant theoretical basis for finding service solutions of business process logic. Furthermore, this article wants to show possible conversions of known methods of process analysis of Information Engineering disciplines, such as the method Eriksson – Penker Business Extensions, or the method ARIS by prof. Scheer, into the platform of enterprise services.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) Practices in Malaysia

2007 ◽  
pp. 1011-1017
Author(s):  
Rafidah Abd. Razak ◽  
Zulkhairi Md. Dahalin ◽  
Rohaya Dahari ◽  
Siti Sakira Kamaruddin ◽  
Sahadah Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Information Architecture ◽  
Enterprise Information

Analyzing Enterprise System Post-Implementation Use of Manufacturing Processes in Greek SMEs

2013 ◽  
pp. 86-96
Author(s):  
Marios Mantakas ◽  
Dimitris Doukas
Keyword(s):  
Production Planning ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Process Orientation ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Enterprise Information Systems ◽  
Reference Set

This exploratory study assesses the maturity of the use of manufacturing processes by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) which run enterprise information systems (ESs). The chapter considers a reference set of manufacturing best practice processes and analyzes which of these processes are used and which are not on a sample of 15 Greek SMEs. It explores the causes of process non-use from the ES implementer’s perspective. The analysis shows that several production planning, scheduling, execution, and costing processes, which could in principle add value to the sample companies, are not used, even after 7 years on the average of ES operation. Most deficiencies can be attributed to the companies’ lack of process-specific knowledge. An implication is that the analysis of the use of detailed processes should be part of the process and ES maturity assessments, and should precede the evaluation of higher-level business process orientation metrics.

Facilitating Design of Efficient Components by Bridging Gaps between Data Model and Business Process via Analysis of Service Traits of Data

2011 ◽  
pp. 544-549
Author(s):  
Ning Chen
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Data Modeling ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Enterprise Information System ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Solution Quality ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Component Design

In many large-scale enterprise information system solutions, process design, data modeling and software component design are performed relatively independently by different people using various tools and methodologies. This usually leads to gaps among business process modeling, component design and data modeling. Currently, these functional or non-functional disconnections are fixed manually, which increases the complexity and decrease the efficiency and quality of development. In this chapter, a pattern-based approach is proposed to bridge the gaps with automatically generated data access components. Data access rules and patterns are applied to optimize these data access components. In addition, the authors present the design of a toolkit that automatically applies these patterns to bridge the gaps to ensure reduced development time, and higher solution quality.

Business Process Management as a Critical Success Factor in EIS Implementation

2010 ◽  
pp. 1884-1895
Author(s):  
Vladimír Modrák
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Enterprise Information System ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Organization Management ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Effective Organization

Nowadays, the implementation of business process management modern tools in companies becomes a mater of acceptation of an effective organization management. The first ultimate precondition for achieving this goal is a properly structured company. An attention in the study is placed on business process reengineering due to preparing preconditions for smooth implementation of enterprise information system (EIS). Since there are differences between tools of business processes redesign and information systems development, then a main focus was on overcoming existing semantic gaps. With aim to solve this problem the specific modeling method has been used that was clear for company’s staff and usable for EIS designers. Used modeling approach was supported by QPR software.

Business Process Management as a Critical Success Factor in EIS Implementation

2010 ◽  
pp. 508-520
Author(s):  
Vladimír Modrák
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Enterprise Information System ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Organization Management ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Effective Organization

Nowadays, the implementation of business process management modern tools in companies becomes a mater of acceptation of an effective organization management. The first ultimate precondition for achieving this goal is a properly structured company. An attention in the study is placed on business process reengineering due to preparing preconditions for smooth implementation of enterprise information system (EIS). Since there are differences between tools of business processes redesign and information systems development, then a main focus was on overcoming existing semantic gaps. With aim to solve this problem the specific modeling method has been used that was clear for company’s staff and usable for EIS designers. Used modeling approach was supported by QPR software.

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