An architecture for collaborative scenarios applying a common BPMN-Repository

  • Authors:

  • Thomas Theling;Jörg Zwicker;Peter Loos;Dominik Vanderhaeghen

  • Affiliations:

  • Information Systems and Management, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany;Information Systems and Management, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany;Information Systems and Management, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany;Institute for Information Systems at the German Research Center, for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbruecken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • DAIS'05 Proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Collaborative business scenarios require a flexible integration of enterprises. To manage inter-organizational business processes, existing concepts for business process management (BPM) need to be adopted and extended. This paper presents a conceptual architecture for cross-enterprise processes’ planning, implementation, and controlling. Core component of the architecture is a distributed repository managing all required data and information, which especially obtains a process-oriented view on collaboration networks. Cross-organizational processes need close coordination among networking partners. This is achieved through the integration of business process models. Thus we further propose a procedure model of an XML-based model transformation, which reduces complexity of the modeling-task and enables model integration on a conceptual level.