Keeping Workflow-Enabled Enterprises Flexible: WfMS Abstraction and Advanced Task Management

Always Stay Flexible! WfMS-independent Business Process Controlling in SOA

“…This is where our work begins. In [13] a decoupling and integration architecture for WfMS is shown, which is the conceptual basis for our work. Moreover there is an advanced task list management provided ( [13]).…”

“…In [13] a decoupling and integration architecture for WfMS is shown, which is the conceptual basis for our work. Moreover there is an advanced task list management provided ( [13]). The present work now addresses the following challenges: 1) Data warehouse for business process controlling: A data warehouse based detailed concept to enhance the integration architecture to enable business process controlling.…”

“…However, no work provides our kind of long term monitoring data and evaluation abstraction in an integration architecture that includes business process controlling based on a scalable data warehouse -let alone the addition of advanced task management such as our results from [13].…”

“…In this section we will first present the integration architecture from [13] which is used as a foundation.…”

“…However, due to its nature as a standard, this model only provides general concepts. Already in [13] we provided an initial version of a WfMS decoupling architecture as well as additions for advanced workflow client task list management. Here we significantly enhance our architecture, in order to allow now for WfMS-independent business process monitoring as well.…”