Designing Conceptual Framework for Aligning Service Oriented Architecture with Business Process

Abstract

A problem in most of the organizations is to find the best way to mature their business processes. Process maturity can make the organizations more profitable and competent for other competi-tors. The problem can be solved by aligning service oriented architecture (using web services) with business processes within the organization. The purpose of this paper is to design a concep-tual framework for aligning business processes with the Service Oriented Architecture and then prove the framework’s validity using simulation. An organization is working in education sector and wants to integrate its multiple web applications to allow data flow from one system to another. The framework will help the organization to align business process of service oriented architec-ture and to easily mold their business process according to business needs. The framework’s va-lidity will be proved by simulating the entire process using Yet Another Workflow Language (YAWL)