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A Work Allocation Language with Soft Constraints
Christian Stefansen & Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft Research Lab India
Parameswaran Seshan, Infosys
This report defines a workflow allocation language with hard and soft constraints and explains the requirements and constraints that led to the current design. This language can be used with most business processes and workflow languages. A high-degree of parameterization makes it possible for the language to be used with virtually any process language.
Business Process Management: Facilitating Enterprise Agility
Akash Saurav Das, Sandeep Gaikwad & Vivek Raut
Bridging the gap between business and technology landscapes is a critical, step to align business requirements with information technology infrastructure. An effective enterprise BPM paradigm does just that, and in the process enhances agility.
This article appears in the SETLabs Briefings on ‘Platforms for Enterprise Agility’ (July - Sep, 2006).
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Using Process Execution Data in Application Support
Udhai Reddy
Published in the 2006 Workflow Handbook including Business Process Management, Wfmc.
This paper is based on research on using process execution data for assessing the priority and impact of application incidents (trouble tickets) on strategic business goals. The research aims at identifying the impact of the incident using the business process execution data and process definition. The research is still in progress with respect to refinement of the models.
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Structural metrics for goal based business process design and evaluation
S. Balasubramanian, Mayank Gupta
Published in Business Process Management Journal, Year: 2005 Volume: 11 Issue: 6 Page: 680 - 694
The paper aims to provide business process designers a formal yet user friendly technique to evaluate the implications of a process design on process performance even before its implementation.
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Web services and flexible business processes: towards the adaptive enterprise
Moitra, D.; Ganesh, J
Information & Management, Volume 42, Issue 7, 1 October 2005, Pages 921-933
The full potential of the expected role of Information Technology (IT) in facilitating organizational adaptation has not yet been realized because most of the existing systems do not lend themselves to the levels of flexibility required to support changes in business processes. This problem is accentuated with increase of inter-organizational linkages involving disparate IT systems. Web services have emerged as a disruptive technology, with a real potential of enabling flexible business processes. This paper examines the influence of Web services on business process flexibility and analyses its impact on organizational adaptation.
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Methods for modeling flexibility in Business Processes
Jyoti M. Bhat, Nivedita Deshmukh
Presented and published in the BPMDS 05 proceedings, June 2005
This paper proposes modeling methods that can be used to capture the flexibility dimension of a business process, allowing the business process to evolve in an agile manner . The aim is to define elements of flexibility and model these elements separately from the process logic at different levels of abstraction.
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In-process BPMS for Enterprise Applications
Khushnood Naqvi
05/03/2004
Typically in BPM, processes are executed on an external BPM Server (BPMS) that orchestrates enterprise applications. We propose the idea of Process Execution Framework (PEF), an approach for embedding BPMS functionality within an application highlighting
IT Led Business Process Management in the Financial Services Industry: Moving Beyond the Steady State
N Dayasindhu
02/03/2004
How should enterprises in the financial services industry approach IT led business process outsourcing and reengineering?
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