Process and Data: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Reichert, Manfred (2012) Process and Data: Two Sides of the Same Coin. In: 20th Int'l Conf on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'12), OTM 2012, Part I, September 12-14, 2012, Rome, Italy.

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Abstract

Companies increasingly adopt process management technology which offers promising perspectives for realizing flexible information systems. However, there still exist numerous process scenarios not adequately covered by contemporary information systems. One major reason for this deficiency is the insufficient understanding of the inherent relationships existing between business processes on one side and business data on the other. Consequently, these two perspectives are not well integrated in many existing process management systems. This paper emphasizes the need for both object- and process-awareness in future information systems, and illustrates it along several examples. Especially, the relation between these two fundamental perspectives will be discussed, and the role of business objects and data as drivers for both process modeling and process enactment be emphasized. In general, any business process support should consider object behavior as well as object interactions, and therefore be based on two levels of granularity. In addition, data-driven process execution and integrated user access to
processes and data are needed. Besides giving insights into these fundamental characteristics, an advanced framework supporting them in an integrated manner will be presented and its application to real-world process scenarios be shown. Overall, a holistic and generic framework integrating processes, data, and users will contribute to overcome many of the limitations of existing process management technology.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Keynote)
Subjects: DBIS Research > Publications
Depositing User: Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert
Date Deposited: 21 Sep 2012 16:38
Last Modified: 19 Aug 2013 19:31
URI: http://dbis.eprints.uni-ulm.de/id/eprint/853

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