Business Process Management - Weske, Mathias

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Résumé :
Business process management is usually treated from two different perspectives: business administration and computer science. While business administration professionals tend to consider information technology as a subordinate aspect in business process management for experts to handle, by contrast computer science professionals often consider business goals and organizational regulations as terms that do not deserve much thought but require the appropriate level of abstraction. Matthias Weske argues that all communities involved need to have a common understanding of the different aspects of business process management. To this end, he details the complete business process lifecycle from the modeling phase to process enactment and improvement, taking into account all different stakeholders involved. After starting with a presentation of general foundations and abstraction models, he explains concepts like process orchestrations and choreographies, as well as process properties and data dependencies. Finally, he presents both traditional and advanced business process management architectures, covering, for example, workflow management systems, service-oriented architectures, and data-driven approaches. In addition, he shows how standards like WfMC, SOAP, WSDL, and BPEL fit into the picture. This textbook is ideally suited for classes on business process management, information systems architecture, and workflow management. This 2^nd edition contains major updates on BPMN Version 2 process orchestration and process choreographies, and the chapter on BPM methodologies has been completely rewritten. The accompanying website www.bpm-book.com contains further information and additional teaching material.

Biographie:
Mathias Weske is a Fellow of the German Computer Science Society and Chair of the Business Process Technology Group at Hasso Plattner Institute at the Digital Engineering Faculty, University of Potsdam, Germany. He aims at addressing real-world problems in business process management with formal approaches and engineering useful prototypes. Mathias is a founding member of the steering committee of the BPM conference series...

Sommaire:
Part I Foundation.- Introduction.- Evolution of Enterprise Systems Architectures.- Part II Business Process Modelling.- Business Process Modelling Foundation.- Process Orchestrations.- Process Choreographies.- Properties of Business Processes.- Part III Architectures and Methodologies.- Business Process Management Architectures.- Business Process Management Methodology.

From the reviews of the second edition:

The subject Business process management is of interest to professional in business administration and computer science. ... The author opines that both the communities need to have a common understanding of the different aspects of business process management. In this context, he details the complete business process lifecycle from the modeling phase to process enactment and improvement, taking into account all different stakeholders involved. ... This is an ideal text book for the students for CSE & business administration. (CSI eNewsletter, Vol. 3 (10), November, 2012)