Analyzing Software Application Integration into Evolving Enterprise Business Processes using Process Architectures

Zia Babar, Eric Yu

2020

Abstract

Many organizations face frequent, ongoing challenges as they attempt to integrate software applications into their business processes, particularly as enterprises continuously evolve, resulting in shifting requirements for these applications. The hiBPM framework supports modelling multiple interconnected processes involved in the integration of software applications into enterprise business processes so that alternative process-level configurations are compared and analysed. To support the evolving design capabilities and flexibilities of process execution, we elaborate on “Design-Use” and “Plan-Execute” relationships between processes. Design-Use relationships represent the exchange of a tool, capability or artifact that can be used repeatedly by other enterprise business processes for attaining some process or enterprise objectives. Plan-Execute relationships represent the exchange of information than enables process activities execution to accomplish enterprise objectives while simultaneously reducing the space of possible process execution possibilities. We applied the hiBPM framework at a large retail organization to illustrate how the organization could better integrate data analytics applications into their existing business and IT processes.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Babar Z. and Yu E. (2020). Analyzing Software Application Integration into Evolving Enterprise Business Processes using Process Architectures.In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-423-7, pages 778-786. DOI: 10.5220/0009422107780786

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis20,
author={Zia Babar and Eric Yu},
title={Analyzing Software Application Integration into Evolving Enterprise Business Processes using Process Architectures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2020},
pages={778-786},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009422107780786},
isbn={978-989-758-423-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Analyzing Software Application Integration into Evolving Enterprise Business Processes using Process Architectures
SN - 978-989-758-423-7
AU - Babar Z.
AU - Yu E.
PY - 2020
SP - 778
EP - 786
DO - 10.5220/0009422107780786