Mathias Weske
Business Process Management- Concepts, Languages, Architectures  
3rd edition
2019, XVII, 417 p., 311 b/w illustrations
Hardcover, ISBN 978-3-662-59431-5
e-Book, ISBN 978-3-662-59432-2 

Business process management is usually treated from two different perspectives: business administration and computer science. While business administration professionals tend to consider information technology as a subordinate aspect in business process management for experts to handle, by contrast computer science professionals often consider business goals and organizational regulations as terms that do not deserve much thought but require the appropriate level of abstraction.

Matthias Weske argues that all communities involved need to have a common understanding of the different aspects of business process management. To this end, he details the complete business process lifecycle from the modeling phase to process enactment and improvement, taking into account all different stakeholders involved. After starting with a presentation of general foundations and abstraction models, he explains concepts like process orchestrations and choreographies, as well as process properties and data dependencies. Finally, he presents both traditional and advanced business process management architectures, covering, for example, workflow management systems, service-oriented architectures, and data-driven approaches. In addition, he shows how standards like WfMC, SOAP, WSDL, and BPEL fit into the picture.

This textbook is ideally suited for classes on business process management, information systems architecture, and workflow management. This 3rd edition contains a new chapter on business decision modelling, covering the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard; the chapter on process choreographies has been streamlined, and numerous clarifications have been fetched throughout the book. The accompanying website www.bpm-book.com contains further information and additional teaching material.

Features and Benefits:
+ Details the complete business process lifecycle from the modeling phase to process enactment and improvement
+ Presents both traditional and advanced business process management architectures, like e.g. workflow management systems and service-oriented architectures
+ Shows how standards like WfMC, SOAP, WSDL, and BPEL fit into the picture
+ Accompanying website www.bpm-book.com contains additional teaching material

Keywords:
Business Process Management - SOAP - WSDL - BPEL - Process Orchestration - Process Choreographies - YAWL - Workflow

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