A decade of business process management conferences: personal reflections on a developing discipline

  • Authors:
  • Wil M. P. van der Aalst

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • BPM'12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Business Process Management
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The Business Process Management (BPM) conference series celebrates its tenth anniversary. This is a nice opportunity to reflect on a decade of BPM research. This paper describes the history of the conference series, enumerates twenty typical BPM use cases, and identifies six key BPM concerns: process modeling languages, process enactment infrastructures, process model analysis, process mining, process flexibility, and process reuse. Although BPM matured as a research discipline, there are still various important open problems. Moreover, despite the broad interest in BPM, the adoption of state-of-the-art results by software vendors, consultants, and end-users leaves much to be desired. Hence, the BPM discipline should not shy away from the key challenges and set clear targets for the next decade.