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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298994803321

Autore

Stiehl Volker

Titolo

Process-Driven Applications with BPMN / / by Volker Stiehl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-07218-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

004

005.7

650

Soggetti

Application software

Management information systems

Industrial management

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

Business Process Management

Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing

Business Information Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Definition of Process-Driven Applications -- Architecture of Process-Driven Applications -- Implementing the Basic Architecture of Process-Driven Applications -- Advanced Concepts for Architecture Support in Process-Driven Applications -- Conclusion and Outlook.

Sommario/riassunto

How can we optimize differentiating business processes and exploit their full potential? Here Volker Stiehl provides answers, utilizing the various options that the BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) standard offers for planning, implementing, and monitoring processes. The book presents an approach for implementing an architecture for applications that strives to find a balance between development and maintenance costs, sustainability, scalability, and fault tolerance; that meets flexibility requirements without becoming inordinately complex itself; and that keeps the end application as abstract as possible from the system landscape in which it operates. Based on the semantic



enhancements found in version 2.0 of the BPMN standard, which have made it possible to execute process models, his approach exploits BPMN to create and run complete application architectures. In this context, BPMN is not just used to model the business processes of the application, as the “B” in BPMN might suggest; but also to model and execute the integration processes between the systems. Throughout the book, the software package SAP Process Orchestration is used to illustrate the implementation of the proposed architecture, yet all recommendations are intentionally kept generic so that they can be implemented on any other comparable platform as well. Software architects, IT managers, software developers and project managers, as well as students of information and business technology will find the book a valuable resource. The proposed application architecture offers them a detailed blueprint, the principles of which they can use to plan and implement process-driven distributed applications.