Title
Always Stay Flexible! WfMS-independent Business Process Controlling in SOA
Abstract
Nowadays, businesses need to change their operational processes in a ?exible and agile manner to keep the competitive edge. The fruitful combination of SOA (beyond'only' Web Services / BPEL based SOA implementations)and WfMS can be used to run business processes through the 'orchestration' of services with business value. However, work?ow applications (WfApp) often use proprietary interfaces from WfMS resulting in a tight coupling between both. If the WfMS has to change that easily becomes a critical cost factor. Beside service orchestration a continuous process optimizationis crucial. This requires business process controlling (BPC)that provides a substantial contribution to the competitiveness of enterprises. We thus address two problems: Firstly, we present an integration architecture that decouples a WfApp from the underlying WfMS. Secondly, BPC components are integrated into the architecture, which are based on a data warehouse and a service ('BPC logger') to record business objects. A prototypic implementation using a standardized insurance process validates the results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/EDOCW.2011.35
EDOCW
Keywords
Field
DocType
business object,business process,operational process,wfms-independent business,bpc logger,bpc component,standardized insurance process,continuous process,always stay flexible,soa implementation,underlying wfms,business value,databases,process control,business process management,service oriented architecture soa,service oriented architecture,management system,data warehouses,data warehouse,business,web services
Data warehouse,Business value,Systems engineering,Business process,Computer science,Business object,Business Process Execution Language,Web service,Orchestration (computing),Service-oriented architecture
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2325-6583
2
0.42
References 
Authors
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Hausotter141.55
Carsten Kleiner27321.21
Arne Koschel314950.58
David Zhang47365360.85
Heiner Gehrken520.42