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Architectures for Enabling Flexible Business Processes: A Research Agenda

Architectures for Enabling Flexible Business Processes: A Research Agenda

Sietse Overbeek, Yiwei Gong, Marijn Janssen
Copyright: © 2010 |Volume: 1 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 19
ISSN: 1947-9344|EISSN: 1947-9352|EISBN13: 9781609609825|DOI: 10.4018/joci.2010070101
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Overbeek, Sietse, et al. "Architectures for Enabling Flexible Business Processes: A Research Agenda." IJOCI vol.1, no.3 2010: pp.1-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/joci.2010070101

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Overbeek, S., Gong, Y., & Janssen, M. (2010). Architectures for Enabling Flexible Business Processes: A Research Agenda. International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI), 1(3), 1-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/joci.2010070101

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Overbeek, Sietse, Yiwei Gong, and Marijn Janssen. "Architectures for Enabling Flexible Business Processes: A Research Agenda," International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI) 1, no.3: 1-19. http://doi.org/10.4018/joci.2010070101

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Abstract

For decades, information systems have been designed for controlling and managing business processes. In the past, these systems were often monolithic in nature and not made for interacting and communicating with other systems. Today, departments and organizations must collaborate, which requires distributed Web-based systems to support the enactment of flexible business processes. In this paper, four architectures of process management systems are investigated by studying the components and the relationships with the tasks that make up the business processes. These different architectures support automation of non-repetitive, customized processes, and are compared based on dimensions of flexibility. This evaluation showed that the process orchestration architecture scored best, but still has its shortcomings. The results from the comparison are used for developing a research agenda that includes the suggestion to develop reference architecture for connecting individual architectural components.

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