Collaborative Enterprise Applications Based on Business and Social Artifacts

This paper discusses how to design and develop collaborative enterprise applications using business and social artifacts. Business artifacts populate the business world (associated with business process management platforms) and allow to facilitate the communication between IT and non-IT practitioners over application requirements to satisfy, for example. And social artifacts populate the social world (associated with Web~2.0 applications) and abstract the online activities that are executed over Web~2.0 applications such as tagging photos. Both worlds are connected to each other through social machines that allow business artifacts to act upon Web~2.0 applications such as creating new social artifacts and checking on the statuses of existing social artifacts. A system that demonstrates business artifact and social artifact collaboration is also presented in this paper.