A framework developed by Scheer providing enterprises with methods and techniques to accomplish coherent management of their business processes. The ARIS House organizes all information of an organization in five interrelated views: data, function, organization, output, and control. The control view takes business processes, which interrelate static components, for example, functions and data to a dynamic, coherent whole. The ARIS House of Business Engineering (HOBE) provides an overall BPM methodology structured into four levels: process design, process control, workflow control and integrated software applications. Feedback loops between these four levels complement the framework illustrating and advocating continuous process improvement (CPI) based on actual process performance.
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Service-Oriented Architecture for Business Management
Katrina Leyking (Institute for Information Systems at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany) and Jörg Ziemann (Institute for Information Systems at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch189
Abstract
During the last two decades, many enterprises have put business processes in the focus of their organizational strategies both for internal and collaborative business activities. Business process models provide the IT department with a semiformal, business-driven requirements basis for implementing business strategy into information systems (Scheer, 1999). However, despite notable progress in integration technologies such as workflow management systems (WMS) and enterprise application integration (EAI) systems, executing enterprise applications along a business process has remained the challenge of any universal business process management (BPM) approach. The most recent technology paradigm of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is expected to accomplish seamless and flexible business process automation (Krafzig, Banke, & Slama, 2005). The vision of loosely coupled services, that execute business activities across heterogeneous, distributed software systems via the Internet, captivates by the extent of flexibility and responsiveness given to business management. Thus, service-oriented computing represents more than a concept of software engineering. It is rather considered to be the ultimate driver for a complete business reformation, finally bridging the gap between business strategy and technological infrastructure. Beyond these visionary perspectives, the effects of service-orientation on BPM methods and techniques will be manifold and challenging both for research and practice.