Manfred Reichert, Barbara Weber, "Enabling Flexibility in Process-Aware
Information Systems: Challenges, Methods, Technologies"
2012 | ISBN-10: 3642304087 | PDF | 533 pages | 15 MB
2012 | ISBN-10: 3642304087 | PDF | 533 pages | 15 MB
In
today’s dynamic business world, the success of a company increasingly
depends on its ability to react to changes in its environment in a quick
and flexible way. Companies have therefore identified process agility
as a competitive advantage to address business trends like increasing
product and service variability or faster time to market, and to ensure
business IT alignment. Along this trend, a new generation of
information systems has emerged—so-called process-aware information
systems (PAIS), like workflow management systems, case handling tools,
and service orchestration engines. With this book, Reichert and Weber
address these flexibility needs and provide an overview of PAIS with a
strong focus on methods and technologies fostering flexibility for all
phases of the process lifecycle (i.e., modeling, configuration,
execution and evolution). Their presentation is divided into six parts.
Part I starts with an introduction of fundamental PAIS concepts and
establishes the context of process flexibility in the light of practical
scenarios. Part II focuses on flexibility support for pre-specified
processes, the currently predominant paradigm in the field of business
process management (BPM). Part III details flexibility support for
loosely specified processes, which only partially specify the process
model at build-time, while decisions regarding the exact specification
of certain model parts are deferred to the run-time. Part IV deals with
user- and data-driven processes, which aim at a tight integration of
processes and data, and hence enable an increased flexibility compared
to traditional PAIS. Part V introduces existing technologies and systems
for the realization of a flexible PAIS. Finally, Part VI summarizes the
main ideas of this book and gives an outlook on advanced flexibility
issues. The book’s target groups include researchers, PhD students and
Master students in the field of information systems. After reading the
book, they will better understand PAIS flexibility aspects. To support
the easy use as a textbook, a series of exercises is provided at the end
of each chapter and slides and further teaching material are available
on the book’s web site www.flexible-processes.com. Professionals
specializing in business process management (BPM) who want to obtain a
good understanding of flexibility challenges in BPM and state-of-the-art
solutions will also benefit from the presentations of open source as
well as commercial process management systems and related practical
scenarios.
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