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Enabling Flexibility in Process-Aware Information Systems - Challenges, Methods, Technologies (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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Enabling Flexibility in Process-Aware Information Systems - Challenges, Methods, Technologies (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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In today's dynamic business world, the success of a company
increasingly depends on its ability to react to changes in its
environment in a quick and flexible way. Companies have therefore
identified process agility as a competitive advantage to address
business trends like increasing product and service variability or
faster time to market, and to ensure business IT alignment. Along
this trend, a new generation of information systems has
emerged-so-called process-aware information systems (PAIS), like
workflow management systems, case handling tools, and service
orchestration engines. With this book, Reichert and Weber address
these flexibility needs and provide an overview of PAIS with a
strong focus on methods and technologies fostering flexibility for
all phases of the process lifecycle (i.e., modeling, configuration,
execution and evolution). Their presentation is divided into six
parts. Part I starts with an introduction of fundamental PAIS
concepts and establishes the context of process flexibility in the
light of practical scenarios. Part II focuses on flexibility
support for pre-specified processes, the currently predominant
paradigm in the field of business process management (BPM). Part
III details flexibility support for loosely specified processes,
which only partially specify the process model at build-time, while
decisions regarding the exact specification of certain model parts
are deferred to the run-time. Part IV deals with user- and
data-driven processes, which aim at a tight integration of
processes and data, and hence enable an increased flexibility
compared to traditional PAIS. Part V introduces existing
technologies and systems for the realization of a flexible PAIS.
Finally, Part VI summarizes the main ideas of this book and gives
an outlook on advanced flexibility issues. The book's target groups
include researchers, PhD students and Master students in the field
of information systems. After reading the book, they will better
understand PAIS flexibility aspects. To support the easy use as a
textbook, a series of exercises is provided at the end of each
chapter and slides and further teaching material are available on
the book's web site www.flexible-processes.com. Professionals
specializing in business process management (BPM) who want to
obtain a good understanding of flexibility challenges in BPM and
state-of-the-art solutions will also benefit from the presentations
of open source as well as commercial process management systems and
related practical scenarios.
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