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Process simulation support in BPM tools: The case of BPMN
Due to the increasing acceptance of BPM, nowadays BPM tools are extensively used
in organizations. Core to BPM are the process modeling languages, of which BPMN
is the one that has been receiving most attention these days. Once a business
process is described using BPMN, one can use a process simulation approach in
order to find its optimized form. In this context, the simulation of business
processes, such as those defined in BPMN, appears as an obvious way of improving
processes. This paper analyzes the business process modeling and simulation areas,
identifying the elements that must be present in the BPMN language in order to
allow processes described in BPMN to be simulated. During this analysis a set of
existing BPM tools, which support BPMN, are compared regarding their limitations
in terms of simulation support
Simulation of BPMN process models: current BPM tools capabilities
"The 2016 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'16)"Nowadays, more and more organizations are using Business Process Management (BPM) to prepare themselves to deal, in an effective way, with the increasingly difficult conditions of modern markets. Essential to BPM is the collection of tools which support the operationalization of the business process concept – BPM tools. These tools deal with business process models, which have to be described with a suitable language. In the present, BPMN is considered the standard modeling language to describe business processes. Once a business process is modeled, a process simulation approach might be used in order to find its optimized version. Therefore, the simulation of business process models, such as those defined in BPMN, appears as an obvious way of improving processes. This paper advances work previously published by the authors regarding BPM tools capabilities in terms of the simulation of BPMN process models. In this context a platform to support the characterization of BPM tools regarding process simulation capabilities has been developed. This platform might be helpful to users who want to select the most adequate BPM tool regarding their simulation needs.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Business Process Management Education in Academia: Status, challenges, and Recommendations
In response to the growing proliferation of Business Process Management (BPM) in industry and the demand this creates for BPM expertise, universities across the globe are at various stages of incorporating knowledge and skills in their teaching offerings. However, there are still only a handful of institutions that offer specialized education in BPM in a systematic and in-depth manner. This article is based on a global educators’ panel discussion held at the 2009 European Conference on Information Systems in Verona, Italy. The article presents the BPM programs of five universities from Australia, Europe, Africa, and North America, describing the BPM content covered, program and course structures, and challenges and lessons learned. The article also provides a comparative content analysis of BPM education programs illustrating a heterogeneous view of BPM. The examples presented demonstrate how different courses and programs can be developed to meet the educational goals of a university department, program, or school. This article contributes insights on how best to continuously sustain and reshape BPM education to ensure it remains dynamic, responsive, and sustainable in light of the evolving and ever-changing marketplace demands for BPM expertise
Modeling and Execution of Multienterprise Business Processes
We discuss a fully featured multienterprise business process plattform
(ME-BPP) based on the concepts of agent-based business processes. Using the
concepts of the subject-oriented business process (S-BPM) methodology we
developed an architecture to realize a platform for the execution of
distributed business processes. The platform is implemented based on cloud
technology using commercial services. For our discussion we used the well known
Service Interaction Patterns, as they are empirically developed from typical
business-to-business interactions. We can demonstrate that all patterns can be
easily modeled and executed based on our architecture. We propose therefore a
change from a control flow based to an agent based view to model and enact
business processes.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1404.273
The Internet-of-Things Meets Business Process Management: Mutual Benefits and Challenges
The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a network of connected devices
collecting and exchanging data over the Internet. These things can be
artificial or natural, and interact as autonomous agents forming a complex
system. In turn, Business Process Management (BPM) was established to analyze,
discover, design, implement, execute, monitor and evolve collaborative business
processes within and across organizations. While the IoT and BPM have been
regarded as separate topics in research and practice, we strongly believe that
the management of IoT applications will strongly benefit from BPM concepts,
methods and technologies on the one hand; on the other one, the IoT poses
challenges that will require enhancements and extensions of the current
state-of-the-art in the BPM field. In this paper, we question to what extent
these two paradigms can be combined and we discuss the emerging challenges
Dynamic business process management
Open e-PRIOR is an open source e-Procurement system developed by the European Commission. Currently Open e-PRIOR system is handling simple choreographies based on the exchange of a single main object. However, these different objects are related and part of larger business process and by handling the objects separately the full overview is lost.
Business process management (BPM) helps organizations to understand and maintain complicated business workflow. This master thesis focuses on how BPM can provide a way to monitor the full business process and provide information to the stakeholders using the e-Prior system.
The first part of the thesis explores the business context and relevant capabilities of the open e-PRIOR system. Secondly candidate BPM tools are compared against the modeling needs to select the most suitable one. Thereafter, Logical view of open e-PRIOR is re-designed and a new logical model of the open e-PRIOR system is proposed by implementing business process management system. Finally, a business process management task is designed and implemented by a business process management tool
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