Architectures for Enabling Flexible Business Processes

2012 ◽  
pp. 187-205
Author(s):  
Sietse Overbeek ◽  
Yiwei Gong ◽  
Marijn Janssen
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Reference Architecture ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Past

For decades, information systems have been designed for controlling and managing business processes. In the past, these systems were often monolithic in nature and not made for interacting and communicating with other systems. Today, departments and organizations must collaborate, which requires distributed Web-based systems to support the enactment of flexible business processes. In this paper, four architectures of process management systems are investigated by studying the components and the relationships with the tasks that make up the business processes. These different architectures support automation of non-repetitive, customized processes, and are compared based on dimensions of flexibility. This evaluation showed that the process orchestration architecture scored best, but still has its shortcomings. The results from the comparison are used for developing a research agenda that includes the suggestion to develop reference architecture for connecting individual architectural components.

Architectures for Enabling Flexible Business Processes

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Sietse Overbeek ◽  
Yiwei Gong ◽  
Marijn Janssen
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Reference Architecture ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Past

For decades, information systems have been designed for controlling and managing business processes. In the past, these systems were often monolithic in nature and not made for interacting and communicating with other systems. Today, departments and organizations must collaborate, which requires distributed Web-based systems to support the enactment of flexible business processes. In this paper, four architectures of process management systems are investigated by studying the components and the relationships with the tasks that make up the business processes. These different architectures support automation of non-repetitive, customized processes, and are compared based on dimensions of flexibility. This evaluation showed that the process orchestration architecture scored best, but still has its shortcomings. The results from the comparison are used for developing a research agenda that includes the suggestion to develop reference architecture for connecting individual architectural components.

scholarly journals ERAS OF WEB MAPPING DEVELOPMENTS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B4 ◽  
pp. 247-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Veenendaal
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
Web Map ◽  
The Past

Developments in web mapping and web based geographic information systems (GIS) have evolved rapidly over the past two decades. What began as online map images available to a small group of geospatial experts and professionals has developed to a comprehensive and interactive web map based on integrated information from multiple sources and manipulated by masses of users globally. This paper introduces a framework that outlines the eras of web mapping and significant developments among those eras. From this framework, some of the influences and trends can be determined, particularly those in relation to the development of technologies and their relation to the growth in the number and diversity of users and applications that utilise web mapping and geospatial information online.

Design and Realisation of Scalable Business Process Management Systems for Deployment in the Cloud

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Chun Ouyang ◽  
Michael Adams ◽  
Arthur H. M. Ter Hofstede ◽  
Yang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Load Balancing ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
User Demand ◽  
Process Engine ◽  
Automated Support ◽  
Dynamic Execution

Business Process Management Systems ( BPMSs ) provide automated support for the execution of business processes in modern organisations. With the emergence of cloud computing, BPMS deployment considerations are shifting from traditional on-premise models to the Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) paradigm, aiming at delivering Business Process Automation as a Service. However, scaling up a traditional BPMS to cope with simultaneous demand from multiple organisations in the cloud is challenging, since its underlying system architecture has been designed to serve a single organisation with a single process engine. Moreover, the complexity in addressing both the dynamic execution environment and the elasticity requirements of users impose further challenges to deploying a traditional BPMS in the cloud. A typical SaaS often deploys multiple instances of its core applications and distributes workload to these application instances via load balancing. But, for stateful and often long-running process instances, standard stateless load balancing strategies are inadequate. In this article, we propose a conceptual design of BPMS capable of addressing dynamically varying demands of end users in the cloud, and present a prototypical implementation using an open source traditional BPMS platform. Both the design and system realisation offer focused strategies on achieving scalability and demonstrates the system capabilities for supporting both upscaling, to address large volumes of user demand or workload, and downscaling, to release underutilised computing resources, in a cloud environment.

Interoperable Process Engineering System for Collaborative Optimization of Product Life-Cycle

2014 ◽  
pp. 166-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Armijo ◽  
Mikel Sorli
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Collaborative Optimization ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Business Agility

Most of the industrial organizations, including SMEs, need to quickly react and adapt to the changing market conditions imposed by globalization, such as new sustainability directives or new type of customers. The fulfillment of these requirements on time is a must so as to remain competitive in the global markets. Since data management information systems are already present in almost all the corpus of industrial enterprises as custom developments or standard PLM solutions, the natural technical evolution that aims to provide an effective answer to these changing market conditions comprises the shifting from a data management perspective towards a process management view. Hence, the challenge is how to manage business processes that build upon existing information systems so as to encourage business agility, efficiency, and interoperability. The proposed approach roots on the Business Process Management (BPM) discipline and leverages process optimization through the systematic modeling and reengineering of business processes accompanied by supporting interoperable and configurable eco-services, which are conceived as sustainability-aware services designed to optimize some aspects of the product life-cycle through eco-constraints management.

scholarly journals Development of Transportation Management System with the Use of Ontological and Architectural Approaches to Ensure Trucking Reliability

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8504
Author(s):  
Aleksey Dorofeev ◽  
Natalya Altukhova ◽  
Nadejda Filippova ◽  
Tatyana Pashkova ◽  
Mikhail Ponomarev
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Reference Architecture ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Service Market ◽  
Architecture Framework

With the wide variety of information systems and applications for motor transport and transport logistics control we have today, one may think we are already living in the digital era of general welfare, and digital tools would easily ensure sustainable development and prosperity of businesses. However, the experience of deployment and introduction of such solutions shows that their value for transport business is significantly lower than expected. Moreover, in some projects, business performance of transport companies had no correlation with introduction of information systems. In the best-case scenario, they provided for a slight decrease in document flow transaction costs. The change of the strategic status of a company in the transportation service market is a fairly complicated task, which, as analysis of literary sources shows, is achievable for few enterprises, primarily small and medium-sized businesses. Such situations show that information solutions were introduced without analyzing or assessing the business models of certain companies which could be used a basis for digital landscape of business as a whole. In recent years, the basic concept of forming a single information space of an enterprise has been the enterprise architecture. It provided for coordination between all the business processes in order to achieve a company’s strategic goals. The fundamentals of the concept were developed by J. Zachman in his famous Zachman Framework, and it was later developed with numerous models of enterprise architecture (e.g., TOGAF (Department of Defense Architecture Framework), GERAM (Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology), DoDAF (Department of Defense Architecture Framework)). However, currently some researchers note that sustainable corporate development should stem not only from a “correct assembly” of all its business elements, which was the purpose of enterprise architecture, but also from the interaction of these elements when reaching the emergence effect. In this context, one should pay attention to comprehensive activity analysis of a transport and logistics business using ontological and architecture approaches.

scholarly journals ERAS OF WEB MAPPING DEVELOPMENTS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B4 ◽  
pp. 247-252
Author(s):  
Bert Veenendaal
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
Web Map ◽  
The Past

Developments in web mapping and web based geographic information systems (GIS) have evolved rapidly over the past two decades. What began as online map images available to a small group of geospatial experts and professionals has developed to a comprehensive and interactive web map based on integrated information from multiple sources and manipulated by masses of users globally. This paper introduces a framework that outlines the eras of web mapping and significant developments among those eras. From this framework, some of the influences and trends can be determined, particularly those in relation to the development of technologies and their relation to the growth in the number and diversity of users and applications that utilise web mapping and geospatial information online.

Integrated Management Systems and Information Management Systems

2016 ◽  
pp. 195-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Gianni ◽  
Katerina Gotzamani
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Integrated Management System ◽  
Management Standards ◽  
Information Management Systems

Information systems collect and disseminate information within organizations based on information technology, while management systems formalize business processes following the standards requirements. Since management standards proliferate, their integrated adoption into a holistic overarching system has emerged as an effective and efficient approach. In this context, this chapter aims to explore the potential synergies among information management and integration. Firstly, a focused literature review is conducted and survey data on the relevant standards evolution are processed in order to provide the information and management practitioners with a clear and oriented depiction of the available norms and their adoption possibilities. Furthermore, a framework is proposed consolidating management sub-systems into an integrated structure including information management and supported by information systems. Finally, the concept of internalization of management systems standards is understood in association with information and knowledge diffusion within an integrated management system.

On Flexibility in Business Process Management Systems

2012 ◽  
pp. 184-198
Author(s):  
Amit V. Deokar ◽  
Nazim Taskin
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Process Support ◽  
Key Dimensions

Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) provide the necessary infrastructure for managing business processes, in both intra-organizational and inter-organizational contexts. These process support systems also provide the technical support for managing changes in business processes, either at design time or run-time. Consequently, it is necessary for a BPMS to be flexible and amenable to changes at various levels. This chapter highlights key dimensions along which process support systems such as BPMS can be made more flexible, provides an overview of the existing body of knowledge on these dimensions, and motivates the future work in this direction. The intention is to provide the reader a strong starting point for either conducting a more detailed literature study or pursuing further research along any of these dimensions.

Model of the influence of internal production conditions on the efficiency of enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vilayat I. Ismayilov ◽  
Nahid N. Almasov ◽  
Nijat S. Musayev ◽  
Aygun Q. Samedova
Keyword(s):  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Quality Management Systems ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Internal Production

The establishment and development of economic and management tools for supporting business processes are consistent elements of supporting these processes. In the practice of enterprises, there is no clear boundary between the establishment and development of economic and management tools. In establishment, there is a development of methods and approaches to business process management. The novelty of the study concerns the development of tools required when new systems for managing business processes are built and their quality is ensured at enterprises. Under conditions of changes and improvement of existing systems, this novelty refers to the development of an ensured course of business processes. It was identified that the model for determining the economic efficiency of quality management systems based on the ratio of quality results and costs is consolidated by indicators in the documentation pyramid at the enterprise, which creates opportunities for the preparation of guidelines for the management system at various levels for the development of strategies, policies, tactics and procedures for flexibility and adaptability of business processes. The practical significance of the study is conditioned by the fact that systems for managing business processes and ensuring their quality exist at the studied enterprises in various forms, their functions refer to different departments and sometimes to different levels of management. The success and effectiveness of such systems are usually closely intertwined with such concepts as the flexibility and adaptability of enterprise management systems.

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