Service-Oriented Business Process Management

2005

When designing executable enterprise processes, the alignment between business and technical requirements is still one of the central problems. Process specifications obtained from the pure business perspective commonly cannot be executed "as-is" due to constraints of information systems given in the form of existing software services. In this paper we introduce several concepts targeted towards aligning business processes and service-based systems. The notion of realization levels is introduced to discern the level of business conformance. Furthermore, a model of system constraints is introduced to guide the developer to process realizations with high business conformance. By the combined use of the concepts, structured development and evolution of process realizations is enabled by continuous tracking of the alignment between business and the supporting technology.

Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Service oriented computing - ICSOC '04, 2004

Composition of software services is a fundamental part in supporting enterprise business processes. Designed properly, executable processes can be used to closely support business processes by the integration of existing software services. In order to support business processes the design of the executable process must closely follow the business events and activities, as perceived by business actors. However, the design must also consider technical issues such as limitations in existing technology and systems. In this paper we examine how technical system constraints influence the realization of business processes. Based on this examination we present a set of realization types that describes the transformation from a business process into its realization as an executable process. We also propose design criteria that need to be adhered to in order to cater to both business and technical needs.

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2022

2011 30th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, 2011

Reducing the gap between the definition, modeling and management of business definition, modeling and management of business processes and the realization of the main processes functions through software services requires a methodological approach. Addressing such gap, this paper focuses on the interactions between the activities of a business process and the functionality provided by software services. It presents a meta-model to formally specify such interactions. The proposed meta-model is instantiated through a case study. Lessons learnt through the development of an example were used to define a graphic editor prototype, as an automated tool for managing interactions between business processes and software services. The proposed approach enables the alternative application of top-down and bottom-up analysis techniques for modeling processes and services, and assists developers with an integrated tool for modeling business processes and software services in a seamlessly combined way.

IEEE Software, 2000

BILITY have caused a signifi cant shift in business processes, from static solutions to fl exible processes that can address rapidly changing business needs. Consider virtual supply chains, where business partners change seamlessly as new business opportunities arise. The marketplace needs business processes that it can break into independent elements and then recompose on demand. Dynamic, fl exible business models require supporting information systems that evolve as quickly as the businesses they support. Most of the changes can't be applied during conventional maintenance but must be performed transparently on running systems.

International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, 2007

Service oriented architectures, an emerging paradigm for designing and implementing business collaborations within and across organizational boundaries, are currently of interest to both software vendors and scientists. In this paradigm, the functionality provided by business applications is encapsulated within web services: software components described at a semantic level, which can be invoked by application programs or by other services through a stack of Internet standards including HTTP, XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. Once deployed, web services provided by various organizations can be interconnected in order to implement business collaborations, leading to composite web services. Ultimately, these composed services are there to support business processes. Therefore, the relationship between business process management, workflow technology, and service oriented architectures is highly relevant. This is illustrated by the interest in the BPEL standard. Therefore, this special issue of the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management addresses the link between processes and services. This paper introduces the articles in this special issue and provides an overview of the domain.

3 Information Security Institute, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610064, China ABSTRACT: In recent years, we have witnessed a tremendous growth in information and communication technologies that facilitate the design and implementation of complex enterprise business processes. One of the major innovations is the concept of Business Process (BP) which organising services around processes rather than functions. The paper demonstrates a case study which designs a number of BPs in Capital Markets (CM), and implements those BPs using Web services technologies. This paper focuses on adaptability and flexibility, so the system to be easily built and integrated with dynamic changing business environment, with minimized development time and costs.

Service-orientationisr ecognized as an important enablerf or increasing thee fficiencyo ft ransformationp rocesses in business. Improved flexibility is becoming an ecessity in many competitivei ndustriesw henc ompanies aref orced to quicklym eetd ynamic customer needsa nd when organizationc oncepts are increasingly basedonnetworkingw ith partners.Akeyrequirement forthe flexible bundlingo fi ndividual tasksi nb usinessp rocesses ares ervice models that have a clear linkt oh ow business is conducteda nd that ares haredw ithin as pecific community.H owever,t here is al ack of methodologies forc ombining technical andb usiness-driven servicem odelinga nd aligning it with (business) process managementa sw ella ss ourcing strategies.F or this purpose, this research discussest echniques fors ervice modelinga nd presents an extendeds ervice modelingc onceptf or theb usiness-driven discoveryo fs ervices.T he banking industry whichc urrently is facing profound transformationc hallenges wasc hosen to motivateand demonstratethe applicability of thesuggested model.

2009

Onec hallenget hato rganizations face nowadaysi st oa gilely react to changesi nt heir business, adapting theirb usinessp rocesses andt echnologiest o newp ossibilities. To do so,o rganizations must be capable of separatingt he definitiono ft heir businessp rocessesf romt heir technical implementation, which most arec urrently streaky. Applying theS ervice Oriented Computing( SOC) and Business ProcessM anagement( BPM) paradigmsi nc onjunction,i sa ni mportant but nott rivial,s tept ot ake, involvingd ifferent visions of businessa nd technological challenges.T he ModelD rivenD evelopment( MDD) paradigm is also appliedt os erve as ab ridgeb etween businessp rocess models andt echnical models of thesoftwaretoimplementthem. In this paper, thef urther work done on as ervice oriented methodologyd efined yearsa go is presented, considering businessp rocesses as thec entreo fs oftwared evelopment. From businessp rocess models,s oftwares ervices ared erived in as traightforward way, whichw ill be automatedbymodeltransformations usingthe OMGservice profile.

2005

When designing executable enterprise processes the assumption of a transparent integration with existing systems is unrealistic. These systems, represented by software services, may impose various constraints. Using a process description framework, in this paper we examine how the design of executable business processes is affected by technical issues. Furthermore, we examine rules to which system designers should adhere to when designing services, to enable a larger scope of "as-is" realizations of business processes.