DocumentCode :
1583018
Title :
Always Stay Flexible! WfMS-independent Business Process Controlling in SOA
Author :
Hausotter, Andreas ; Kleiner, Carsten ; Koschel, Arne ; Zhang, David ; Gehrken, Heiner
Author_Institution :
Fac. IV, Univ. of Appl. Sci. & Arts Hannover, Hannover, Germany
fYear :
2011
Firstpage :
184
Lastpage :
193
Abstract :
Nowadays, businesses need to change their operational processes in a flexible and agile manner to keep the competitive edge. The fruitful combination of SOA (beyond´only´ Web Services / BPEL based SOA implementations)and WfMS can be used to run business processes through the ´orchestration´ of services with business value. However, workflow applications (WfApp) often use proprietary interfaces from WfMS resulting in a tight coupling between both. If the WfMS has to change that easily becomes a critical cost factor. Beside service orchestration a continuous process optimizationis crucial. This requires business process controlling (BPC)that provides a substantial contribution to the competitiveness of enterprises. We thus address two problems: Firstly, we present an integration architecture that decouples a WfApp from the underlying WfMS. Secondly, BPC components are integrated into the architecture, which are based on a data warehouse and a service (´BPC logger´) to record business objects. A prototypic implementation using a standardized insurance process validates the results.
Keywords :
Web services; business data processing; insurance data processing; service-oriented architecture; workflow management software; BPC logger; BPEL based SOA; SOA; Web Services; WfApp; WfMS-independent business process controlling; business value; continuous process optimization; data warehouse; insurance process; service orchestration; service-oriented architecture; workflow applications; workflow management systems; Business; Data warehouses; Databases; Monitoring; Process control; Service oriented architecture; Business process management (BPM); business process controlling (BPC); data warehouse; service-oriented architecture (SOA); work?ow management system (WfMS);
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops (EDOCW), 2011 15th IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Helsinki
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0869-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4426-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/EDOCW.2011.35
Filename :
6037618
Link To Document :
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