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Business Process Model and Notation
About: Business Process Model and Notation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 9038 publications have been published within this topic receiving 190712 citations. The topic is also known as: Business Process Modeling Notation & BPMN.
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TL;DR: Analysis highlights the importance of documentation to modern business processes, especially for coordination roles, and the paper describes three different purposes for documentation in response to the ever-changing landscape of information flows.
Abstract: Purpose – Many business process improvement efforts emphasize better integration, yet process integration can mean many things. The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of information flows to modern business processes, and draw upon recent organizational and information systems literature to characterize process integration and to derive four principles of process integration: accessibility, timeliness, transparency, and granularity of information flows.Design/methodology/approach – Using a field study, the four principles of process integration are applied to analyze ten different business processes across five organizations.Findings – In total, 18 generalized activities are identified that describe non‐integrated behavior, and “keying in known data” was found to be the most common. Among other findings, analysis highlights the importance of documentation to modern business processes, especially for coordination roles, and the paper describes three different purposes for documentation fo...
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TL;DR: A non-conventional business process modeling method is introduced that is amenable to automatic analysis (simulation), yet powerful enough to capture the rich reality of business systems as enacted in the behavior and interactions of users.
127 citations
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TL;DR: The paper presents the methodical principles of business process modeling using the Semantic Object Model (SOM), which supports a semi-formal modeling technique using object-oriented and transaction-oriented paradigms.
Abstract: The paper presents the methodical principles of business process modeling using the Semantic Object Model (SOM). The entire modeling approach of the Semantic Object Model (SOM approach) comprises layers for the enterprise plan, for business processes, and for application systems. Business processes are interpreted as procedures to carry out the enterprise plan. Application systems are interpreted as one of the resources for executing business processes. Based on an integrated meta model, the SOM approach supports a semi-formal modeling technique using object-oriented and transaction-oriented paradigms.
127 citations
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TL;DR: This paper extends the current thinking on SOA to include a more comprehensive integration of business process transformation and the enabling technologies of service-oriented development and policy-based IT management, and develops an existing scenario: a financial services sector "Life Change" business process scenario.
Abstract: The success of an on demand e-business requires that business process, application, and information technology (IT) infrastructure integration merge into a comprehensive and cohesive architecture, where business process transformation drives service-oriented development and on demand enterprise computing. This enabling architecture is often described as a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and is a prerequisite accelerator for on demand solutions. The primary focus of SOA has been on dynamic reconfiguration of services from defined business processes, and on developing business services based on Web services and, more recently, grid services. Current descriptions of SOA are less focused on overall IT infrastructure enablement, both from a business policy perspective and within the context of service-oriented development. In this paper, we extend the current thinking on SOA to include a more comprehensive integration of business process transformation and the enabling technologies of service-oriented development and policy-based IT management. We call this extension on demand SOA. We develop these concepts by using an existing scenario: a financial services sector "Life Change" business process scenario, which involves distributed and disjoint transactions as well as stateless high-performance computing (HPC) applications.
126 citations
Patent•
13 Apr 2000
TL;DR: In this article, a method, system, and software product in which wrappers for rules automation technology are provided is described, where business rules, business objects and at least one object agent, representing a corresponding one of the business objects, are provided.
Abstract: A method, system, and software product in which wrappers for rules automation technology are provided. Business rules, business objects, and at least one object agent, representing a corresponding one of the business objects, are provided. The object agent is inserted into a business rules agenda for executing the business rules so that the business rules are directly applied to the object agent, and thereby, are indirectly applied to the corresponding business object. This approach advantageously allows unsophisticated users of rules automation technology to interface with complex business objects and prevents an exception from destroying a business transaction.
125 citations