Essential Business Process Modeling

Name: Essential Business Process Modeling
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ISBN: 9780596008437

ISBN-10: 0596008430

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Edition: 2005

Authors: Michael Havey

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Ten years ago, groupware bundled with email and calendar applications helped track the flow of work from person to person within an organization. Workflow in today's enterprise means more monitoring and orchestrating massive systems. A new technology called Business Process Management, or BPM, helps software architects and developers design, code, run, administer, and monitor complex network-based business processes. BPM replaces those sketchy flowchart diagrams that business analysts draw on whiteboards with a precise model that uses standard graphical and XML representations, and an architecture that allows it converse with other services, systems, and users. Sound complicated? It is.…

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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 354
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.19" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface



Concepts



Introduction to Business Process Modeling


The Benefits of BPM


BPM Acid Test: The Process-Oriented Application


The Morass of BPM


Workflow


Roadmap


Summary


References



Prescription for a Good BPM Architecture


Designing a Solution


Components of the Design


Standards


Summary


Reference



The Scenic Tour of Process Theory


Family Tree


The Pi-Calculus


Petri Nets


State Machines and Activity Diagrams


Summary


References



Process Design Patterns


Design Patterns and the GoF


Process Patterns and the P4


Basic Patterns


Advanced Branch and Join Patterns


Structural Patterns


Multiple Instances Patterns


State-Based Patterns


Cancellation Patterns


Yet Another Workflow Language (YAWL)


Additional Patterns


Process Coding Standards


Summary


References



Standards



Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)


Anatomy of a Process


BPEL Example


BPEL in a Nutshell


BPELJ


BPEL and Patterns


Summary


References



BPMI Standards: BPMN and BPML


BPMN


BPML


Summary


Reference



The Workflow Management Coalition (WFMC)


The Reference Model


XPDL


WAPI


WfXML


Summary


References



World Wide WEB Consortium (W3C): Choreography


About the W3C


Choreography and Orchestration


WS-CDL


WSCI


WSCL


Summary


References



Other BPM Models


OMG: Model-Driven BPM


ebXML BPSS: Collaboration


Microsoft XLANG: BPEL Forerunner


IBM WSFL: BPEL Forerunner


BPEL, XLANG, and WSFL


Summary


References



Examples



Example: Human Workflow in Insurance Claims Processing


Oracle BPEL Process Manager


Setting Up the Environment


Developing the Example


Testing the Example


Summary


References



Example: Enterprise Message Broker


What Is a Message Broker?


Example: Employee Benefits Message Broker


Summary


Key BPM Acronymns


Index