User-Centered Business Process Modeling and Pattern-Based Development for Large Systems

2013 ◽  
pp. 134-155
Author(s):  
O. Takaki ◽  
T. Seino ◽  
N. Izumi ◽  
K. Hasida
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Formal Method ◽  
Modeling Method ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Agile Software

In agile software development, it is imperative for stakeholders such as the users and developers of an information system to collaborate in designing and developing the information system, by sharing their knowledge. Especially in development of a large-scale information system, such collaboration among stakeholders is important, but difficult to achieve. This chapter introduces a modeling method of business processes for requirements analysis and a development framework based on Web-process architectures. The modeling method makes it easier for stakeholders to agree upon requirements. It also employs a formal method to allow business process models to satisfy both understandability and accuracy. On the other hand, the development framework above enables rapid spiral development of short-term cycles through the collaboration of developers and users. This chapter also introduces an example that compares the workloads of two requirement analyses of large-scale system developments for a government service and a financial accounting service, in order to evaluate the advantages of the proposed modeling method.

User-Centered Business Process Modeling and Pattern-Based Development for Large Systems

2014 ◽  
pp. 1014-1035
Author(s):  
O. Takaki ◽  
T. Seino ◽  
N. Izumi ◽  
K. Hasida
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Formal Method ◽  
Modeling Method ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Agile Software

In agile software development, it is imperative for stakeholders such as the users and developers of an information system to collaborate in designing and developing the information system, by sharing their knowledge. Especially in development of a large-scale information system, such collaboration among stakeholders is important, but difficult to achieve. This chapter introduces a modeling method of business processes for requirements analysis and a development framework based on Web-process architectures. The modeling method makes it easier for stakeholders to agree upon requirements. It also employs a formal method to allow business process models to satisfy both understandability and accuracy. On the other hand, the development framework above enables rapid spiral development of short-term cycles through the collaboration of developers and users. This chapter also introduces an example that compares the workloads of two requirement analyses of large-scale system developments for a government service and a financial accounting service, in order to evaluate the advantages of the proposed modeling method.

Integrating Business Processes and Information Systems in an Interorganizational Context

2011 ◽  
pp. 136-153
Author(s):  
Peter Rittgen
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Unified Modeling ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
System Models ◽  
Close Cooperation

When organizations engage in close cooperation they usually need to reorganize the business processes that serve the interface between them. This reorganization is often done with the help of business process models. As a result, the underlying information systems have to be adapted, too. The changes to the latter can be supported by information system models which are typically “written” in a different language from that of the business processes. Here we suggest an approach to facilitate the development of information system models based on the models of the respective business processes. This is achieved by mapping a suitable business process language to the Unified Modeling Language. We apply this approach in the context of an interorganizational business process.

CONCEPT LOCATION MODELING THROUGH BUSINESS PROCESS VIEWS

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (01) ◽  
pp. 1350005
Author(s):  
RICARDO PÉREZ-CASTILLO ◽  
MARIO PIATTINI ◽  
BARBARA WEBER
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Concept Location ◽  
Process Views ◽  
Over Time

Concept location is a key activity during software modernization since it allows maintainers to exactly determine what pieces of source code support a specific concept. Real-world business processes and information systems providing operational IT support for respective processes can be misaligned as a consequence of uncontrolled maintenance over time. When concepts supported by an information system are getting outdated or misaligned, concept location becomes a time-consuming and error-prone task. Moreover, enterprise information systems (which implement business processes) embed significant business knowledge over time that is neither present nor documented anywhere else. To support the evolution of existing information systems, the embedded knowledge must first be retrieved and depicted in up-to-date business process models and then be mapped to the source code. This paper addresses this issue through a concept location approach that considers business activities as the key concept to be located and discovers different partial business process views for each piece of source code. Thus, the concept location problem becomes the problem of extracting such views. This approach follows model-driven development principles and an automatic model transformation is implemented to facilitate its adoption. Moreover, a case study involving two real-life information system demonstrates its feasibility.

scholarly journals An Extension of BPMN Meta-model for Evaluation of Business Processes

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azeem Lodhi ◽  
Veit Küppen ◽  
Gunter Saake
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
System Development ◽  
Business Process Modeling ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Information System Development ◽  
Meta Model ◽  
Business Units

An Extension of BPMN Meta-model for Evaluation of Business ProcessesBusiness process modeling is used for better understanding and communication of company's processes. Mostly, business process modeling is discussed from the information system development perspective. Execution of a business process involves various factors (costs and time) which are important and should be represented in business process models. Controlling of business units uses post execution analysis for detection of failures for improvement. The process models conceived for information system development are not sufficient for post execution analysis. This paper focuses on the challenges of business process modeling in the post execution context. We provide a meta model for evaluation of a business process and discuss BPMN in this context. We also extend existing BPMN meta model for performance analysis of business processes. The proposed extensions are presented with the help of an example.

Compliance control as a mechanism for ensuring the economic security of businesses in e-commerce

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 1491-1518
Author(s):  
Vilena A. YAKIMOVA ◽  
Viktor S. RADOMSKII
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Compliance Control ◽  
Control Procedures ◽  
Risk Protection ◽  
Set Up ◽  
It Risk

Subject. The article focuses on organizational and methodological issues of internal compliance control in e-commerce businesses. Objectives. We refine the design and technique of internal compliance control for e-commerce businesses. Methods. The study relies upon methods of analysis and generalization, grouping, systematization, risk-based, systems and business process approaches. Results. We devised the five-component compliance control sysem, determined its principles and functions ensuring the economic security of e-commerce businesses. We suggest conducting compliance procedures intended to mitigate IT risks and accounting for the specifics of e-commerce business processes. Conclusions and Relevance. In e-commerce, compliance control serves for identifying and monitoring compliance risks, ensuring safe operations of businesses, which is vital for people. The information system for IT risk protection was found to underlie compliance control, while control procedures can be classified into general and applied. The findings can be used to set up a reliable and effective compliance system for e-commerce businesses in order to prevent economic abuses and crime.

scholarly journals Business processes exceptions in relation to operational performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 908-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remco Dijkman ◽  
Oktay Turetken ◽  
Geoffrey Robert van IJzendoorn ◽  
Meint de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Operational Performance ◽  
Normal Flow ◽  
Throughput Time ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Business process models describe the way of working in an organization. Typically, business process models distinguish between the normal flow of work and exceptions to that normal flow. However, they often present an idealized view. This means that unexpected exceptions – exceptions that are not modeled in the business process model – can also occur in practice. This has an effect on the efficiency of the organization, because information systems are not developed to handle unexpected exceptions. The purpose of this paper is to study the relation between the occurrence of exceptions and operational performance. Design/methodology/approach The paper does this by analyzing the execution logs of business processes from five organizations, classifying execution paths as normal or exceptional. Subsequently, it analyzes the differences between normal and exceptional paths. Findings The results show that exceptions are related to worse operational performance in terms of a longer throughput time and that unexpected exceptions relate to a stronger increase in throughput time than expected exceptions. Practical implications These findings lead to practical implications on policies that can be followed with respect to exceptions. Most importantly, unexpected exceptions should be avoided by incorporating them into the process – and thus transforming them into expected exceptions – as much as possible. Also, as not all exceptions lead to longer throughput times, continuous improvement should be employed to continuously monitor the occurrence of exceptions and make decisions on their desirability in the process. Originality/value While work exists on analyzing the occurrence of exceptions in business processes, especially in the context of process conformance analysis, to the best of the authors’ knowledge this is the first work that analyzes the possible consequences of such exceptions.

scholarly journals Pengujian Unit Plugin Pemberian Anotasi Efek Secara Semantik pada Proses Bisnis BPMN

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Hilman Nuril Hadi
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Unit Testing ◽  
Business Process Model ◽  
Testing Technique ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
Path Testing ◽  
Future Business

Business process model was created to make it easier for business process stakeholders to communicate and discuss the structure of the process more effectively and efficiently. Business process models can also be business artifacts and media that can be analyzed further to improve and maintain organizational competitiveness. To analyze business processes in a structured manner, the effect/results of the execution of business processes will be one of the important information. The effect/result of the execution of certain activities or a business process as a whole are useful for managing business processes, including for improvements related to future business processes. This effect annotation approach needs to be supported by business process modeling tools to assist business analysts in managing business processes properly. In previous research, the author has developed a plugin that supports business analysts to describe the effects semantically attached to activities in the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) business process model. In this paper, the author describes the unit testing process and its results on the plugin of semantic effect annotation that have been developed. Unit testing was carried out using the basic path testing technique and has obtained three test paths. The results of unit test for plugin are also described in this paper.

scholarly journals IPTEKS PENERAPAN DAN MANFAAT TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI TERHADAP PROSES BISNIS PERBANKAN PADA PT. BANK RAKYAT INDONESIA (PERSERO) TBK. KANTOR CABANG MANADO

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valencia Matthew Anis ◽  
Steven J. Tangkuman
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information System ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Business World ◽  
Business Information ◽  
Banking Business ◽  
Branch Office

The use of information technology plays an important role in the company's business processes. One of the success factors of company performance is the optimal use or application of information technology. Especially in banking business process activities, the use of information technology is one of the weapons in competition in the banking business world. In this article Bank BRI, which is one of the largest banking companies in Indonesia, also relies on information technology in the continuity of its business processes. In this article, we will discuss about the application of the Bank BRI Manado branch office’s Information Technology and its benefits in the continuity of banking business processes. In this case the BRI bank Manado branch office uses a variety of information systems in the banking business processes that will be explained in this article.Keywords : Business Processes, Information Technology, Banking business, Information System, Bank

scholarly journals Collaborative method to maintain business process models updated

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 461-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuno Castela ◽  
Paulo Dias ◽  
Marielba Zacarias ◽  
José Tribolet
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Organizational Environment ◽  
Business Process Model ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Over Time

Business process models are often forgotten after their creation and its representation is not usually updated. This appears to be negative as processes evolve over time. This paper discusses the issue of business process models maintenance through the definition of a collaborative method that creates interaction contexts enabling business actors to discuss about business processes, sharing business knowledge. The collaboration method extends the discussion about existing process representations to all stakeholders promoting their update. This collaborative method contributes to improve business process models, allowing updates based in change proposals and discussions, using a groupware tool that was developed. Four case studies were developed in real organizational environment. We came to the conclusion that the defined method and the developed tool can help organizations to maintain a business process model updated based on the inputs and consequent discussions taken by the organizational actors who participate in the processes.

A Method for Eliciting Goals for Business Process Models based on Non-Functional Requirements Catalogues

2013 ◽  
pp. 226-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evellin Cardoso ◽  
João Paulo A. Almeida ◽  
Renata S. S. Guizzardi ◽  
Giancarlo Guizzardi
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Business Process Modeling ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Business Process Models ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Goal Models

While traditional approaches in business process modeling tend to focus on “how” the business processes are performed (adopting a behavioral description in which business processes are described in terms of procedural aspects), in goal-oriented business process modeling, the proposals strive to extend traditional business process methodologies by providing a dimension of intentionality to business processes. One of the key difficulties in enabling one to model goal-oriented processes concerns the identification or elicitation of goals. This paper reports on a case study conducted in a Brazilian hospital, which obtained several goal models represented in i*/Tropos, each of which correspond to a business process also modeled in the scope of the study. NFR catalogues were helpful in goal elicitation, uncovering goals that did not come up during previous interviews prior to these catalogues’ use.

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