B2B and EAI with Business Process Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 384-402
Author(s):  
Christoph Bussler
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Specific Process ◽  
Solution Strategies ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Process Oriented ◽  
Integration Problems ◽  
Business To Business

This chapter introduces the application of process management to business-to-business (B2B) integration and enterprise application integration (EAI). It introduces several integration examples and a complete conceptual model of integration with a focus on process management. Several specific process-oriented integration problems are introduced that are process-specific in nature. The goal of this chapter is to introduce B2B and EAI integration, to show how process management fits into the conceptual model of integration and to convey solution strategies to specific process-oriented integration problems. The exercises at the end of the chapter continue the various examples and allow the reader to apply their knowledge to several advanced integration problems.

Building Dynamic Business Process in P2P Semantic Web

2011 ◽  
pp. 180-198
Author(s):  
Timon C. Du ◽  
Eldon Y. Li
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Workflow Management ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Integration System ◽  
Business World ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Semantic Data

Business process management systems such as the workflow management system and the enterprise application integration system manage process flow on a minute-by-minute basis in various application domains. In the conventional approach, the business process must be predefined before it is implemented. However, involving business users in the early stage of the design phase is neither efficient nor realistic in the dynamic business world. This study proposes a framework to implement a dynamic business process in the P2P Semantic Web, which provides the flexibility to dynamically alter business process and to take semantic data into consideration. The system is demonstrated by a case of a manufacturer that is processing an order.

Reuse across Multiple Architectures

2014 ◽  
pp. 1927-1955
Author(s):  
Indika Kumara ◽  
Chandana Gamage
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Heterogeneous Systems ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Application Integration ◽  
Reusable Components ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Systematic Reuse

The commonality across software systems can be exploited to develop multiple heterogeneous systems successfully without undue cost, time, and effort. The systematic reuse across different systems is of paramount importance. With a well-planned reuse approach, a vendor can offer individualized products, which are products tailored to meet the requirements of a particular user effectively, as well as the products constructed to deliver solutions for a greater variety of application domains such as enterprise application integration and business process management. This chapter describes the development of software systems having different architectures reusing most of the implementations of the required functionalities as-is. It presents a systematic process for crafting multi-architecture reusable components and for using those components in formulating software systems. Furthermore, the chapter highlights the significance of the strategic reuse across systems in three contemporary research spheres.

Building Dynamic Business Process in P2P Semantic Web

2011 ◽  
pp. 186-201
Author(s):  
Timon C. Du ◽  
Eldon Y. Li
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Workflow Management ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Integration System ◽  
Business World ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Semantic Data

Business process management systems such as the workflow management system and the enterprise application integration system manage process flow on a minute-by-minute basis in various application domains. In the conventional approach, the business process must be predefined before it is implemented. However, involving business users in the early stage of the design phase is neither efficient nor realistic in the dynamic business world. This study proposes a framework to implement a dynamic business process in the P2P Semantic Web, which provides the flexibility to dynamically alter business process and to take semantic data into consideration. The system is demonstrated by a case of a manufacturer that is processing an order.

Reuse across Multiple Architectures

2012 ◽  
pp. 107-135
Author(s):  
Indika Kumara ◽  
Chandana Gamage
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Heterogeneous Systems ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Application Integration ◽  
Reusable Components ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Systematic Reuse

The commonality across software systems can be exploited to develop multiple heterogeneous systems successfully without undue cost, time, and effort. The systematic reuse across different systems is of paramount importance. With a well-planned reuse approach, a vendor can offer individualized products, which are products tailored to meet the requirements of a particular user effectively, as well as the products constructed to deliver solutions for a greater variety of application domains such as enterprise application integration and business process management. This chapter describes the development of software systems having different architectures reusing most of the implementations of the required functionalities as-is. It presents a systematic process for crafting multi-architecture reusable components and for using those components in formulating software systems. Furthermore, the chapter highlights the significance of the strategic reuse across systems in three contemporary research spheres.

CbSSDF

2013 ◽  
pp. 123-145
Author(s):  
Xiaofeng Du ◽  
Malcolm Munro ◽  
William Song
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Service Description ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Semantic Service ◽  
Service Standards

Web services as a new distributed system technology have been widely adopted by industries in the areas, such as enterprise application integration (EAI), business process management (BPM), and virtual organization (VO). However, lack of semantics in the current Web service standards has become a major barrier in service discovery and composition. To tackle the semantic issues of Web services, this paper proposes a comprehensive semantic service description framework – CbSSDF and a two-step service discovery mechanism based on CbSSDF—to help service users to easily locate their required services. The authors give a detailed explanation of CbSSDF, and then evaluate the framework by comparing it with OWL-S to examine how the proposed framework can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of service discovery and composition. The evaluation is carried out by analysing the different proposed solutions based on these two frameworks for achieving a series of tasks in a scenario.

CbSSDF

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 82-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaofeng Du ◽  
Malcolm Munro ◽  
William Song
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Service Discovery ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Service Description ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Semantic Service

Web services as a new distributed system technology have been widely adopted by industries in the areas, such as enterprise application integration (EAI), business process management (BPM), and virtual organization (VO). However, lack of semantics in the current Web service standards has become a major barrier in service discovery and composition. To tackle the semantic issues of Web services, this paper proposes a comprehensive semantic service description framework – CbSSDF and a two-step service discovery mechanism based on CbSSDF—to help service users to easily locate their required services. The authors give a detailed explanation of CbSSDF, and then evaluate the framework by comparing it with OWL-S to examine how the proposed framework can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of service discovery and composition. The evaluation is carried out by analysing the different proposed solutions based on these two frameworks for achieving a series of tasks in a scenario.

Standards for Web-Based Integration Adapters

2005 ◽  
pp. 2602-2604
Author(s):  
Bill Karakostas
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Heterogeneous Systems ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Application Integration ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Legacy Applications ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
The Web

EAI (enterprise application integration) refers to the plans, methods, and tools aimed at modernizing, consolidating, and coordinating the computer applications in an enterprise. Typically, an enterprise has existing legacy applications and databases and wants to continue to use them while adding or migrating to a new set of applications that exploit the Web, e-commerce, extranet, business-to-business (B2B) commerce, and other new technologies. Enterprise application integration is difficult mainly because there is no standard infrastructure for communication between heterogeneous systems. The four types of B2B and A2A integration challenges that most organizations encounter today are user-interface integration, application integration, business-to-business integration, and data integration.

Alignment patterns for process-oriented appraisals and rewards: using HRM for BPM capability building

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aygun Shafagatova ◽  
Amy Van Looy
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Multidimensional Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Process Oriented ◽  
Process Context ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Employee Appraisals

PurposeWhile the business process management (BPM) literature highlights the significance of aligning employee appraisals and rewards practices with business processes, little is known about the realization. The purpose of this paper is to concretize the impact of process-oriented appraisals and rewards on business process performance and to provide empirical evidence on how organizations actually align their appraisals and rewards practices with BPM.Design/methodology/approachA mixed-method approach has been employed by combining survey results with case studies to offer first-hand evidence. Survey data have been used to quantify the real impact of process-oriented appraisals and rewards. Next, case studies with 10 organizations have allowed us to gain deeper insight into organizational practices for making appraisals and rewards more process-oriented.FindingsThe survey proves that process-oriented employee appraisals and rewards positively affect performance if different employee levels are involved. The case studies reveal similarities and differences in alignment efforts across organizations, based on pattern-matching and a multidimensional analysis, resulting in four alignment patterns.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings extend knowledge about appraisals and rewards within a business process context by providing a quantification and pattern refinement, which specifically advance a BPM-facilitating culture.Practical implicationsManagers and executives benefit from the recommendations for a gradual BPM adoption to improve the success of their business processes and their people-related practices.Originality/valueThe authors offer one of the first in-depth, cross-disciplinary studies that intend to bridge between the disciplines of BPM and human resource management (HRM).

scholarly journals Process-Oriented Development of Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Jae Hoon Lee ◽  
SungIl Chan ◽  
Joong Soon Jang
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Corrective Action ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Time Activity ◽  
Action System ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Process Oriented ◽  
Failure Reporting

Although failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action system (FRACAS) has two management perspectives, its tasks and related information, the previous researches and applications mainly have focused on the data management. This study is to develop a process-oriented FRACAS which supports the operation of the failure-related activities. The development procedures are (1) to define the reporting and analysis tasks, (2) to define the information to be used at each task, and (3) to design a computerized business process model and set the attributes such as durations, rules, and document types. This computerized FRACAS process can be activated in a business process management system (BPMS) which employs the enactment functions, deliver tasks to the proper workers, provide the necessary information, and alarm the abnormal status of the tasks (delay, incorrect delivery, cancellation). Through implementing the prototype system, improvements are found for automation of the tasks, prevention of disoperation, and real-time activity monitoring.

Process Oriented Data Virtualization Design Model for Business Processes Evaluation(PODVDM) Research in Progress

2015 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayad Hameed Mousa ◽  
Norshuhada Shiratuddin ◽  
Muhamad Shahbani Abu Bakar
Keyword(s):  
Process Evaluation ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Design Model ◽  
Log Files ◽  
Process Oriented ◽  
Data Virtualization ◽  
The Right

During process enactment in the business process management (BPM) lifecycle, information collected on execution plans are stored in the form of log files and database tables by using information systems (IS). In the past decade, a new approach based on the applications of Business Intelligence (BI) in business process management has emerged. The approach implements process-oriented data warehouse and mining techniques. However, the main issue is providing the right information at the right time to facilitate process evaluation that can be used for performance analysis and improve business process. Existing techniques have limitations, including huge data in database log files, performance of Process Warehouse (PW), which is highly dependent on specific design), complexity of PW design, lack of convergence between business processes and PW specifications, and the need for real data during process evaluation stage. Objects such as processes, storage, and data repositories can be virtualized to address these limitations. The main aim of this study is to propose a process-oriented data virtualization design model for process evaluation in BPM. The model will be validated through expert reviews and prototype development as well as through a case study. In this paper, we describe the research motivation, questions, approach, and methodology related to addressing the described limitations by designing a model for evaluation in business processes using the Data Virtualization technique.

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