Business Process Management:

Concepts, Languages, Architectures

Chapter 1

Prof. Dr. Mathias Weske

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Send Receive
Invoice Payment
Reseller

Receive Archive
Order Order
Ship
Products

Fig 1.1. Simple ordering process of reseller

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Receive Settle
Invoice Invoice
Buyer

Place
Order
Receive
Products

Fig 1.2. Ordering process of a buyer

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Receive Settle
Invoice Invoice

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Buyer

Place
Order
Receive
Products

Send Receive
Invoice Payment
Reseller

Receive
Order
Ship
Products

Fig 1.3. Interacting business processes form process choreography

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Receive Settle
Invoice Invoice
Buyer Place

M. Weske: Business Process Management,

Order

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Receive
Products
Reseller-A

Receive Send Receive Ship

Order Invoice Payment Products

Fig 1.4. Variant of reseller process with interacting business process

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Evaluation:
Process Mining
Business Activity Monitoring

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Evaluation

Design:
Administration Business Process
Enactment: and Design & Identification and
Operation Enactment Modeling
Monitoring Stakeholders Analysis
Maintenance Analysis:
Validation
Simulation
Configuration Verification

Configuration:
System Selection
Implementation
Test and Deployment

Fig 1.5. Business process lifecycle

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Business Strategy

determines realize

Goals

determine realize

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Organizational
Business Processes

determine realize

Operational
Business Processes

determine realize

Implemented
Business Processes

Fig 1.6. Levels of business processes: from business strategy to

implemented business processes

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Part I: Foundation

2: Evolution of
1: Introduction Enterprise Systems
Architectures

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Part II: Business Process Modelling

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6: Properties of
5: Process
Business
Choreographies
Processes

3: Business
4: Process
Process Modelling
Orchestrations
Foundation

Part III: Architectures and Methodologies

8: Business
7: BPM
Process
Architectures
Methodology

Fig 1.7. Structure of this book---recommended reading process

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