Towards Outsource-ability Enabled BPMN

Mouna Rekik, Khouloud Boukadi, Hanene Ben-Abdallah

2015

Abstract

Business process outsourcing to the Cloud is increasingly being adopted as a strategy to save costs, improve the business process performance, enhance the flexibility in responding to costumers' needs, etc. However, the adoption of an outsourcing strategy faces several challenges like the enterprise data security, vendor-lock-in and labor union. Weighing the pros and cons of outsourcing one’s business process is an arduous task. This paper provides for assistance means: it extends the BPMN language to explicitly support the specification of outsourcing criteria, and it presents an automated approach to help decision makers identify those parts of their business process that benefit most from outsourcing to the Cloud.

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Rekik M., Boukadi K. and Ben-Abdallah H. (2015). Towards Outsource-ability Enabled BPMN . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-114-4, pages 5-14. DOI: 10.5220/0005513500050014


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@conference{icsoft-ea15,
author={Mouna Rekik and Khouloud Boukadi and Hanene Ben-Abdallah},
title={Towards Outsource-ability Enabled BPMN},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={5-14},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005513500050014},
isbn={978-989-758-114-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2015)
TI - Towards Outsource-ability Enabled BPMN
SN - 978-989-758-114-4
AU - Rekik M.
AU - Boukadi K.
AU - Ben-Abdallah H.
PY - 2015
SP - 5
EP - 14
DO - 10.5220/0005513500050014