Workflow Modeling and Process Management

A big list of over 140 entries for Business Process Management tools

The lab is built using the Loan Assessment process as described in Chapter 9 of the textbook “Fundamentals of Business Process Management” (Springer, 2013) authored by M. Dumas, M. La Rosa, J. Mendling and H.A. Reijers. The complete process description can be downloaded from http://fundamentals-of-bpm.org/wp-content/uploads/LoanAssessmentProcessD....

Computers play an integral part in designing, modelling, optimizing, and managing business processes within and across companies. Although business process management (BPM), workflow management (WfM), and business process reengineering (BPR) have been IT- related disciplines with a history of about three decades, there is still a lack of publications clarifying definitions and scope of basic BPM terminologies, such as business process, BPM versus WfM, workflow, BPR, etc.

The research work of Wil van der Aalst, Arthur ter Hofstede, Bartek Kiepuszewski, and Alistair Barros has resulted in the identification of 21 patterns that describe the behavior of business processes. This paper reviews how two graphical process modeling notations, the BPMN Business Process Diagram from the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), and the UML 2.0 Activity Diagram from the Object Management Group (OMG), can represent the workflow patterns. The solutions of the two notations are compared for technical ability to represent the patterns as well as their readability.

How far supports BPMN workflow pattern?

This paper presents a classification framework for exception handling in process-aware information systems (PAIS) based on pat- terns. This framework is independent of specific modelling approaches or technologies and as such provides an objective means of delineat- ing the exception-handling capabilities of specific workflow and process- aware information systems. It is subsequently used to assess the level of exceptions support provided by eight commercial workflow systems and business process modelling and execution languages.

Workflow systems seek to provide an implementation vehicle for complex, re- curring business processes. Notwithstanding this common objective, there are a variety of distinct features offered by commercial workflow management systems. These differences result in significant variations in the ability of distinct tools to represent and implement the plethora of requirements that may arise in contem- porary business processes.

The Workflow Patterns Initiative was established with the aim of delineating the fundamental requirements that arise during business process modelling on a recurring basis and describe them in an imperative way. The first deliverable of this research project was a set of twenty patterns describing the control-flow per- spective of workflow systems. Since their release, these patterns have been widely used by practitioners, vendors and academics alike in the selection, design and development of workflow systems [vdAtHKB03].