Increasing tendency of organizations operating on an international scale results in higher variation of company's business models and operations. Royal Philips N.V is one of the multinational companies facing the challenge of managing differences in the processes caused by country-specific fiscal regulations. The differences in regulations drive variability not only in the process design, but a...

Business regulations on enterprise applications cover both infrastructure and orchestration levels of the SOA environment. Thus, for a correct and efficient enforcement of such requirements, full integration among different enforcement middleware is necessary. Based on previous work [1], we make a comparison between enforcement capabilities at business and infrastructure level. Our contribution...

Maintaining regulatory compliance is an increasing concern. Legal Knowledge Management systems could support the work of compliance managers. However, there are challenges to overcome, of interpreting legal knowledge and mapping it onto business processes. In this discussion paper we determine requirements for Legal Knowledge Management systems that can handle these challenges. We argue that an...

Recent efforts focus on representing human/organizational knowledge in a format suitable for machine processing to enable systematic knowledge sharing among collaborating business organizations. Different types of business rules can be used to capture multi-faceted business policies, strategies, regulations and constraints. A structure of such rules can model business procedures and processes. ...

Event-condition-action (ECA) is the basic pattern for business rules implementation in the vast majority of companies dealing with complex set of either industry regulations or internal business processes and policies. For example, financial institutions have common federal and/or state rules of conducting business as well as specific rules, e.g. inside brokerage or insurance industry. The stan...

We address the existing gap between business process models and lawful states of business objects. This gap hinders compliance of business process models with internally and externally imposed regulations. Existing modelling methods such as BPMN and ArchiMate lack an explicitly declarative approach for capturing flow of business objects, their states and laws of state transitions. Such deficien...

This article proposes a flexible way in business process modeling and managing. Today, business process needs to be more flexible and adaptable. The regulations and policies in organizations, as origins of change, are often expressed in terms of business rules. The ECA (Event-condition-action) rule is a popular way to incorporate flexibility into a process design. To raise the flexibility in th...

Today, the importance of having 100% uptime for businesses and industries is clear: financial reasons and often strict government regulations for certain industries require 100% business continuity. The concept of business continuity (BC), as Microsoft defines it: the ability of an organization to continue to function even after a disastrous event, accomplished through the deployment of redunda...

In order to conduct business, organizations must try to assess and ensure compliance with privacy legislation, policies and regulations, as part of their IT governance initiatives. As well as these ‘data protection’ concerns, there may be an intangible value in proposing an ‘open’ approach to privacy compliance, for example by showing all privacy-relevant information as is done within the Googl...

Compliance means to adhere to laws, regulations and guidelines. It has become an integral part of business process management since the financial crisis revealed the dimension of legal offences and violated business rules. Even though Business Process Compliance (BPC) has reached a mature state, studies imply that practice still struggles with the documentation and automated control of complian...