On managing business processes variants

On managing business processes variants

Variance in business process execution can be the result of several situations, such as disconnection between documented models and business operations, workarounds in spite of process execution engines, dynamic change and exception handling, flexible and ad-hoc requirements, and collaborative and/or knowledge intensive work. It is imperative that effective support for managing process variance...

Managing Regulatory Compliance in Business Processes

Œe ever-increasing obligations of regulatory compliance are presenting a new breed of challenges for organizations across several industry sectors. Aligning control objectives that stem from regulations and legislation with business objectives devised for improved business performance is a foremost challenge. Œe organizational as well as IT structures for the two classes of objectives are o‰en ...

Managing Business Processes via Workflow Technology

ADEPT: Managing Business Processes using Intelligent Agents

This paper describes work undertaken in the ADEPT (Advanced Decision Environment for Process Tasks) project towards developing an agent-based infrastructure for managing business processes. We describe how the key technology of negotiating, service providing, autonomous agents was realised and demonstrate how this was applied to the BT business process of providing a customer quote for network ...

Modeling and Managing Interactions among Business Processes

Events, workflows, interoperability Most workflow management systems (WfMSs) only support the separate and independent execution of business processes. However, processes often need to interact with each other, in order to synchronize the execution of their activities, to exchange process data, to request execution of services, or to notify progresses in process execution. Recent market trends ...