Many companies are moving from a goods-centric way to a service-centric way of conducting business. In this service-oriented world, we perform everyday tasks, such as communication, banking, or shopping, without human-to-human interaction from the ...

Enterprises are increasingly adopting Web Services as an enterprise-application development platform, I motivated primarily by the large-scale language and platform interoperability the standards enable and the variety of tools supporting the ...

Business Process Management (BPM) is a discipline combining software and human expertise to facilitate business optimization and innovation. It enables businesses to manage changes, sense opportunities and accelerate process improvements. BPM empowers ...

Building successful enterprise software requires an effective collaboration among Business and IT stakeholders. Business analysts capture requirements in business terms. Software engineers interpret these requirements and translate them into the domain ...

Many companies are reporting astronomical increases in event activities in enterprise IT systems worldwide. IBM reports that 72 quadrillion unique business events are generated worldwide each day. Although it is still a daunting task to design and ...

Business intelligence is concerned with understanding and leveraging the vast amounts of information stored in the databases of modern enterprises. Visualization techniques have been used to make sense of this data for a long time, first in the form of ...

The workshop on Business Mashups presented a Web centric platform that brings people, process and data together without any coding in a hosted multi-tenant environment.

It showed how to transparently integrate new ad-hoc processes, collaboration ...

This workshop was about real-time data integration. Participants learn not only the basics of real-time data integration, but also, how it works, how customers are using the technology to solve business problems, and implications of change data capture ...

Mobilizing business process can increase the efficiency of business tasks completion by allowing ubiquitous access to the enterprise. However, we often tend to just replicate parts of enterprise applications on mobile devices without deep considerations ...

The management of non-functional goals, or Service Level Agreements (SLA), in the development of business processes in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) often requires much manual and error-prone effort by all parties throughout the entire lifecycle ...

Business process modeling has been a promising direction in developing service compositions, including both service orchestrations and choreographies. This paper fully focuses on the problem of modeling service orchestrations. Despite many promising ...

As business services become increasingly dependent on information technology (IT), it also becomes increasingly important to maximize the decision support for managing IT. Configuration Management Data Bases (CMDBs) store fundamental information about ...