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Business process technology [electronic resource] : a unified view on business processes, workflows and enterprise applications / Dirk Draheim

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Draheim, Dirk, 1969-
Published
Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 306 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 1.1.Relevance of Business Process Technology -- 1.2.Need for Flexible Business Process Technology -- 1.3.Outline of the Book -- 2.Business Process Excellence -- 2.1.Business Process Reengineering -- 2.2.Business Process Optimization -- 2.3.Business Process Benchmarking -- 2.4.Business Process Management -- 2.5.Business Continuity Management -- 2.6.Information Technology as Mission-Critical Asset -- 2.7.Quality Management Systems -- 3.Research Opportunities in Business Process Technology -- 3.1.Business Process Platforms -- 3.2.Executable Specification of Business Processes -- 3.3.Component-Based Development -- 3.4.Exploiting Emerging Tools for BCM -- 3.5.Integration of Business and Production Processes -- 3.6.Integration of Business Processes and Business Intelligence -- 4.Semantics of Business Process Models -- 4.1.Global and Local Views on Business Processes -- 4.2.Transformation of Goods and Information -- 4.3.Exploiting a Business Process Definition -- 4.4.Events in Business Process Modeling -- 4.5.Semantics of Events -- 4.6.Synchronization in Business Process Models -- 5.Decomposing Business Processes -- 5.1.Motivation for Decomposing System Descriptions -- 5.2.Unique versus Multiple Entry and Exit Points -- 5.3.Parallel Abstraction of Activities and Transferred Data -- 5.4.Towards Parallel Abstraction of Activities and Constraints -- 5.5.Seamless Business Process and Enterprise Application Modeling -- 5.6.Modeling Variants -- 6.Structured Business Process Specification -- 6.1.Basic Definitions -- 6.2.The Pragmatics of Structuring Business Processes -- 6.3.Structured Programming -- 6.4.Frontiers of Structured Business Process Modeling -- 7.Workflow Technology and Human-Computer Interaction -- 7.1.Two HCI Styles of Workflow Systems -- 7.2.Actor Assignment in Workflow Automation -- 7.3.Form-Oriented Analysis -- 8.Service-Oriented Architecture -- 8.1.The Evolution of Service-Oriented Architecture -- 8.2.Three-Tier Service-Oriented Architecture -- 8.3.Characteristics of Service-Oriented Architectures -- 8.4.Web Services based Service-Oriented Architecture -- 8.5.Service-Orientation as Development Paradigm -- 9.Conclusion -- 9.1.Business Processes and Workflows -- 9.2.Integrating Workflow Definition and Dialogue Programming -- 9.3.Towards Integrating Human Activity and Workflow Definition -- 9.4.On Closing the Gaps in Business Process Technology.
Summary
Businesses consist of processes and strive for excellence in business processes. There are different communities addressing business processes, each with its own objectives, tools and terminology-business process reengineering, business process modeling, business process management, workflow execution, and even current strands of service oriented architecture. In concrete business process projects, we are still faced again and again with similar questions: Which decomposition mechanism to use? Which is the correct granularity for business process activities? Which implementing technology is optimal in a given situation? This book offers an approach to the systematization of the field. It provides a landscape of rationales and concepts for business process tools and technologies. The message of the book is that currently emerging integrated business process platforms are the enabling technology of the future, which will allow us to use the huge potential for automation in today's enterprises. --
Business Process Technology by Dirk Draheim is the first book to successfully combine an in-depth scientific examination of business process automation principles with a highly practical explanation of the business process technologies, solutions and packages offered by the big industrial players. As such, it provides the foundation for a truly fundamental unification of today's business process automation technologies and lays out a formally underpinned roadmap for their use, evolution and integration. Prof. Dr. Colin Atkinson, Software Engineering Group, University of Mannheim, Germany --Book Jacket.
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ISBN
9783642015885 (electronic bk.)
3642015883 (electronic bk.)
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AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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