A phased deployment of a workflow infrastructure in the enterprise architecture

  • Authors:

  • Raf Haesen;Stijn Goedertier;Kris Van De Cappelle;Wilfried Lemahieu;Monique Snoeck;Stephan Poelmans

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Decision Sciences & Information Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and Vlekho Business School, Belgium;Department of Decision Sciences & Information Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium;KBC Bank & Insurance, Belgium;Department of Decision Sciences & Information Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium;Department of Decision Sciences & Information Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium;Vlekho Business School, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • BPM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Business process management
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Many organizations migrate to service-oriented architecture (SOA) since it caters for the demanded flexibility and reusability in information systems. Besides delineating appropriate business services, a mechanism for coordinating these services is needed to support business processes. The current state-of-the-art falls short in realizing that goal since existing standards and software packages tend to neglect existing enterprise architectures. Moreover they assume a central position in the architecture from which they control all services according to prescriptive process models, which makes them rather useless in a realistic setting. Therefore we introduce four dimensions to classify workflow engines that reflect the degree of support for the presented requirements. Subsequently we combine these dimensions to describe a phased roll-out of a solution that fulfills the requirements. That solution is currently deployed at KBC Bank & Insurance Group.