Business process technology: a unified view on business processes, workflows and enterprise applications

Currently, we see a variety of tools and techniques for specifying and implementing business processes. The problem is that there are still gaps and tensions between the different disciplines needed to improve business process execution and improvement in enterprises. Business process modeling, workflow execution and application programming are examples of disciplines that are hosted bydifferent communities and that emerged separately from each other. In particular, concepts have not yet been fully elaborated at the system analysis level.Therefore, practitioners are faced again and again with similar questions in concrete business process projects: Which decomposition mechanism to use? How to find the correct granularity for business process activities? Which implementing technology is the optimal one in a given situation? This work offers an approach to the systematization of the field. The methodology used is explicitly not a comparative analysis of existing tools and techniques – although a review of existing tools is an essential basis for the considerations in the book. Rather, the book tries to provide a landscape of rationales and concepts inbusiness processes with a discussion of alternatives. The author reveals thatcurrently emerging integrated platforms for specifying and controlling processes are the enabling technology of the future to use this potential in enterprises. The book arguments with results from established theories and standards in computer science, software engineering and business economics. Thus it contributes to the current vision of next-generation business-process platforms. INDICE: Business Process Technology.- Business Process Platforms.- Component-Based Development.- Case Studies.- Business Process Excellence.- Business Process Reengineering.- Business Process Optimization.- Business Process Management.- Information Technology as Mission-critical Asset.- Sematics.- Decomposing Business Processes.- Structured Programming.- Human-Computer Interaction.- Form-Oriented Architecture.- References.- Index.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-01587-8
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés