Proceedings of the 1st Int'l Joint Workshop on Technologies for Collaborative Business Processes and Management of Enterprise Information Systems (TCoB'07 and MEIS'07), Funchal, Portugal

Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) like ERP-, CRM- and SCM-systems are pervasive in today’s organizations. EIS implementation projects ask for major financial investments of organizations. They impact many processes and employees of an organization and require significant organizational change. EIS are not only a pervasive phenomenon from a financial point of view, but they also embed a high level of complexity from a technical, an organizational and from a business perspective. As a consequence many heterogeneous managerial competences are required. Collaborative business processes play a dominant role in this context. In general process enforcement technologies are considered as one of the key success stories in providing process control and monitoring functions, and addressing complex integration requirements in enterprise systems. However, in current practice, process management often spans organizational and infrastructure boundaries. This is typically the outcome of business activity sharing, outsourcing, and trading partner collaborations. The resultant collaborative business processes pose a new set of challenges and warrant targeted attention from research and industry.