230 research outputs found

    Web Services Support for Dynamic Business Process Outsourcing

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    Outsourcing of business processes is crucial for organizations to be effective, efficient and flexible. To meet fast-changing market conditions, dynamic outsourcing is required, in which business relationships are established and enacted on-the-fly in an adaptive, fine-grained way unrestricted by geographic distance. This requires automated means for both the establishment of outsourcing relationships and for the enactment of services performed in these relationships over electronic channels. Due to wide industry support and the underlying model of loose coupling of services, Web services increasingly become the mechanism of choice to connect organizations across organizational boundaries. This paper analyzes to which extent Web services support the dynamic process outsourcing paradigm. We discuss contract -based dynamic business process outsourcing to define requirements and then introduce the Web services framework. Based on this, we investigate the match between the two. We observe that the Web services framework requires further support for cross - organizational business processes and mechanisms for contracting, QoS management and process-based transaction support and suggest ways to fill those gaps

    Standardisation of Provenance Systems in Service Oriented Architectures --- White Paper

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    This White Paper presents provenance in computer systems as a mechanism by which business and e-science can undertake compliance validation and analysis of their past processes. We discuss an open approach that can bring benefits to application owners, IT providers, auditors and reviewers. In order to capitalise on such benefits, we make specific recommendations to move forward a standardisation activity in this domain

    Electronic Business

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    ”Es gibt nur einen Erfolg - nach seinen eigenen Vorstellungen leben zu können.“ (Christopher Morlay) Erfolgreiches Business beruht auf einem sehr einfachen Grundprinzip: Stellen Sie sich dem Konkurrenzkampf und seinen Sie einfach besser. Provokativ heißt das, dass jedes Unternehmen, dass an die Spitze will, mehr Produkte mit höherer QualitĂ€t, in grĂ¶ĂŸeren StĂŒckzahlen, in kĂŒrzerer Zeit und mit besseren Serviceleistungen als die Konkurrenz anbieten muss. Dabei erzwingt der rasche technologische Fortschritt eine vorausschauende Taktik. Hier nimmt das Internet seit einigen Jahren eine SchlĂŒsselposition ein. Durch das Internet ist eine Informationsgesellschaft entstanden, die von allen Unternehmen eine extrem hohe FlexibilitĂ€t fordert. Diese FlexibilitĂ€t muss fĂŒr jeden Kunden nachvollziehbar und somit transparent sein. Es kann keine Frage mehr sein, ob eine Firma ins eBusiness einsteigt, sondern nur noch wann und wie. Wahrscheinlich bedarf es keiner besonderen Hervorhebung mehr, dass das Thema eBusiness keine reine Nebensache fĂŒr Spezialisten sein darf. Vielmehr ist es so, dass sich die Unternehmen durch das eBusiness auf Ihre Kernkompetenzen konzentrieren können. Bevor man sich aber genauer mit dem Thema auseinandersetzen kann, muss man sich darĂŒber klar sein, was eBusiness eigentlich ist - und was es nicht ist

    BPM News - Folge 3

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    Die BPM-Kolumne des EMISA-Forums berichtet ĂŒber aktuelle Themen, Projekte und Veranstaltungen aus dem BPM-Umfeld. Schwerpunkt der vorliegenden Kolumne bildet das Thema Standardisierung von Prozessbeschreibungssprachen und -notationen im Allgemeinen und BPEL4WS (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services) im Speziellen. Hierzu liefert Jan Mendling von der WirtschaftsuniversitĂ€t Wien in aktuelles Schlagwort. Des weiteren erhalten Leser eine Zusammenfassung zweier im ersten Halbjahr 2006 veranstalteten Workshops zu den Themen „FlexibilitĂ€t prozessorientierter Informationssysteme“ und „Kollaborative Prozesse“ sowie einen BPM Veranstaltungskalender fĂŒr die 2. JahreshĂ€lfte 2006

    Supporting Collaborative Communication in a Multi-layer Meta-process Model for Evolutionary Shared Workflows

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    A key planning activity within a Virtual Enterprise (VE) is to establish agreed inter-organizational processes. This activity, or meta-process, has to allow for gradual evolution of the VE processes and for a multi layer development from informal business agreements to precise workflows. To support this meta-process, a collaborative electronic whiteboard supported by a tuplespace is proposed. The whiteboard supports a mixed graphical and text interface, with support for keeping track of the changes made. The participating organizations upload workflow definitions from their own IT systems into the tuplespace. Workflows are then discussed, modified and evolved before being downloaded again and mapped to the partners’ individual systems

    EDI - XML Standards and Technologies in the Agri-Food Industry

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    Due to globalisation, the new technological developments and the complexity of food supply processes, the European food sector is increasingly becoming more complex. The consumers’ trust in food, triggered and affected by a number of food crises, is low. Today, consumers increasingly expect safe and high quality food and demand information about the origin of their food. Also, the economic health of the food industry can be greatly affected by food crises; therefore, efficient and effective mechanisms are required to assist the food industry in tracking and tracing products along the food chain. In this paper, we discuss the criteria for an efficient and effective traceability system from an IT perspective (mainly data exchange) and we identify key requirements for ICT enabled traceability
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