scholarly journals From Business Process to Component Architecture: Engineering Business to IT Alignment

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karim Dahman ◽  
Francois Charoy ◽  
Claude Godart
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
It Alignment ◽  
Component Architecture

The Dichotomy of Modeling and Execution

2011 ◽  
pp. 70-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Kloppmann ◽  
Dieter Koenig ◽  
Simon Moser
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Graphical Modeling ◽  
Service Component Architecture ◽  
Component Architecture ◽  
Business Process Execution ◽  
Business Process Modeling Notation ◽  
User Tasks

This chapter introduces a set of languages intended to model and run business processes. The Business Process Modeling Notation 1.1 (BPMN) is a notation used to graphically depict business processes. BPMN is able to express choreographies, i.e. the cooperation of separate, autonomous business processes to jointly achieve a larger scenario. Since BPMN is only a notation, there is no specification for a meta-model that allows rendering BPMN choreographies into an executable form. This chapter describes how the Service Component Architecture (SCA) and the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) help to close that gap. BPMN, SCA and WS-BPEL can jointly be used and combined to model, deploy and execute business process choreographies. We will also integrate the related BPEL4People specification, since BPMN allows human ‘user tasks’, but WS-BPEL focuses only on automated business process. The authors argue that, based on these specifications, the dichotomy between modeling and execution can be addressed efficiently. In this chapter, we will show that a key aspect of the future of Business Process Management is to combine graphical modeling (via BPMN) with a precise specification of an executable business process (via WS-BPEL and related standards).

Business Process Standards – Current Landscape (Landkarte aktueller Standards zur Beschreibung von Geschäftsprozessen: WS-BPEL, BPEL4People, BPEL-SPE, BPELJ, SCA)

2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Kloppmann ◽  
Dieter König ◽  
Gerhard Pfau
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Business Process Execution Language ◽  
Service Component ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Service Component Architecture ◽  
Component Architecture ◽  
Business Process Execution ◽  
The Web

SummaryThe landscape of current specifications for the description of business processes consists of the Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) as an adopted standard, and a number of functional extensions allowing for human interactions (BPEL4People), sub-processes with life-cycle coupling (BPEL-SPE), and Java integration (BPELJ). Also relevant for the assembly of portable, executable applications is the Service Component Architecture (SCA) which provides a model for service-based components complementing WS-BPEL. This paper provides an overview of the current business process standards landscape and its further evolution.

scholarly journals Advanced Business Process Management in Networked E-Business Scenarios

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 70-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Grefen ◽  
Oktay Turetken
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
It Alignment ◽  
Conceptual Background ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Automated Support

In the modern economy, we see a shift towards networked business scenarios. In many contemporary situations, the operation of multiple organizations is tightly coupled in collaborative business networks. To allow this tightly coupled collaboration, business process management (BPM) in these collaborative networks is becoming increasingly important. We discuss automated support for this networked BPM: automated means to manage business processes that span multiple autonomous organizations - thereby combining aspects of process management and e-business. We first provide a conceptual background for networked BPM. We describe a number of research approaches in this area, ranging from early developments to contemporary designs in a service-oriented context. This provides an overview of developments in which we observe several major trends. Firstly, we see a development from support for static business processes to support for highly dynamic processes. Secondly, we see how approaches move from addressing simple business collaboration networks to addressing complex networks. Thirdly, we find a move from the use of dedicated information technology to the use of standard technology. Finally, we observe that the BPM research efforts move through time from pushing new BPM technology into application domains to using BPM to realize business-IT alignment in application contexts.

scholarly journals Advanced Business Process Management in Networked E-Business Scenarios

2020 ◽  
pp. 638-675
Author(s):  
Paul Grefen ◽  
Oktay Turetken
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
It Alignment ◽  
Conceptual Background ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Automated Support

In the modern economy, we see a shift towards networked business scenarios. In many contemporary situations, the operation of multiple organizations is tightly coupled in collaborative business networks. To allow this tightly coupled collaboration, business process management (BPM) in these collaborative networks is becoming increasingly important. We discuss automated support for this networked BPM: automated means to manage business processes that span multiple autonomous organizations - thereby combining aspects of process management and e-business. We first provide a conceptual background for networked BPM. We describe a number of research approaches in this area, ranging from early developments to contemporary designs in a service-oriented context. This provides an overview of developments in which we observe several major trends. Firstly, we see a development from support for static business processes to support for highly dynamic processes. Secondly, we see how approaches move from addressing simple business collaboration networks to addressing complex networks. Thirdly, we find a move from the use of dedicated information technology to the use of standard technology. Finally, we observe that the BPM research efforts move through time from pushing new BPM technology into application domains to using BPM to realize business-IT alignment in application contexts.

scholarly journals Networked Business Process Management

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Grefen
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Dynamic Networks ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
It Alignment ◽  
Conceptual Background ◽  
Automated Support

In the current economy, a shift can be seen from stand-alone business organizations to networks of tightly collaborating business organizations. To allow this tight collaboration, business process management in these collaborative networks is becoming increasingly important. This paper discusses automated support for this networked business process management: automated means to manage business processes that span multiple autonomous organizations. The author starts this paper with a treatment of intra- and inter-organizational business processes to provide a conceptual background for business process management in business networks. The author describes a number of research approaches in this area, including the context of these approaches and the architectures of the automated systems proposed by them. The approaches are described from early developments in the field relying on dedicated technology to current designs based on standardized technology in a service-oriented context. The paper thereby provides an overview of developments in the area of inter-organizational business process management in the spectrum from simple, static business networks to complex, dynamic networks. The author observes that the described BPM research efforts move from pushing new BPM technology into application domains to using BPM to realize business-IT alignment in complex application contexts.

Bridging the Gap between Business Process Models and Service Composition Specifications

2013 ◽  
pp. 124-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Buchwald ◽  
Thomas Bauer ◽  
Manfred Reichert
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Service Composition ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Process Models ◽  
The Other ◽  
System Model ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
It Alignment ◽  
The One

Fundamental goals of any Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) include the flexible support and adaptability of business processes as well as improved business-IT alignment. Existing approaches, however, have failed to fully meet these goals. One of the major reasons for this deficiency is the gap that exists between business process models on the one hand and workflow specifications and implementations (e.g., service composition schemes) on the other hand. In practice, each of these two perspectives has to be regarded separately. In addition, even simple changes to one perspective (e.g. due to new regulations or organizational change) require error-prone, manual re-editing of the other one. Over time, this leads to degeneration and divergence of the respective models and specifications. This aggravates maintenance and makes expensive refactoring inevitable. This chapter presents a flexible approach for aligning business process models with workflow specifications. In order to maintain the complex dependencies that exist between high-level business process models (as used by domain experts) and technical workflow specifications (i.e., service composition schemas), respectively, (as used in IT departments) we introduce an additional model layer – the so-called system model. Furthermore, we explicitly document the mappings between the different levels (e.g., between business process model and system model). This simplifies model adoptions by orders of magnitudes when compared to existing approaches.

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