A Component for Business Process Management in Information Systems
Abstract
Building and maintaining software to manage Business Processes (BP) in Information Systems (IS) requires considerable effort and time. This paper describes a software component that uses a Model Driven Engineering (MDE) approach to support business processes management in IS into the context of an IS development and evolution application framework. The Process Manager component allows the definition of BP models using a high-level language. These conceptual models are integrated with other components of the framework to generate the IS applications. The implemented Process Manager component has important improvements comparing to other BP management tools, such as support for collaborative modeling and support for execution of empirical and ad hoc processes. Furthermore, the integration of the Process Manager component and the other framework components significantly increases productivity in IS software development
Keywords:
Component, Management, Business, Information
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Published
2011-05-23
How to Cite
DE OLIVEIRA, Juliano Lopes; LOJA, Luiz Fernando Batista; DA COSTA, Sofia Larissa; GRACIANO NETO, Valdemar Vicente.
A Component for Business Process Management in Information Systems. In: BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS (SBSI), 7. , 2011, Salvador.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2011
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p. 250-261.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbsi.2011.14581.
