Composing transactions

Abstract

Abstract. New forms of cooperation like collaborative business scenarios require a deep but flexible integration of enterprises. In order to manage interorganizational business processes, existing concepts for business process management need to be adapted and extended. In this paper a framework is presented, that shows how cross-enterprise processes can be planned, implemented and controlled. The framework is based on the differentiation of global knowledge within the network and local knowledge of each participating company. Another important part of it is the process life-cycle model that serves as a guideline for the process-oriented setting-up and operation of cooperations. By the use of graphic representations of BPM-models and intuitive metaphor-based model-generation and-visualization tools a broad acceptance for the interorganizational BPM-effort can be achieved. 1 Innovation through business process interoperability The growing importance of cooperation is a result of globalization in combination with the disappearance of political borders and above all technological advance