TY - BOOK AU - Draheim,Dirk ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Business Process Technology: A Unified View on Business Processes, Workflows and Enterprise Applications SN - 9783642015885 AV - QA76.575 U1 - 006.7 23 PY - 2010/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Computer science KW - Data transmission systems KW - Computer Communication Networks KW - Software engineering KW - Multimedia systems KW - Computer Science KW - Multimedia Information Systems KW - Input/Output and Data Communications KW - Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems KW - Programming Techniques KW - Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters N1 - Business Process Excellence -- Research Opportunities in Business Process Technology -- Semantics of Business Process Models -- Decomposing Business Processes -- Structured Business Process Specification -- Workflow Technology and Human-Computer Interaction -- Service-Oriented Architecture -- Conclusion N2 - Currently, we see a lot of tools and techniques for specifying and implementing business processes. The problem is that there are still gaps and tensions between the different disciplines needed to improve business process execution and improvement in enterprises. Business process modeling, workflow execution and application programming are examples of disciplines that are hosted by different communities and emerged separately from each other. In particular, at the system analysis level concepts are not yet fully elaborated. Therefore, practitioners are faced again and again with similar questions in concrete business process projects: which decomposition mechanism to use? Who to find the correct granularity for business process activities? Which implementing technology is the optimal one in a given situation? This book approaches a systematization of the field. The method of the book is explicitly not a comparative analysis of existing tools and techniques – albeit the review of existing tools is a most important source for the considerations in the book. Rather, the book tries to provide a landscape of rationales and concepts in business processes with a discussion of alternatives UR - http://148.231.10.114:2048/login?url=http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-01588-5 ER -