ITEC 4030 Lecture Notes - Business Process Management, Business Activity Monitoring, Workflow Engine

• School: York University
• Department: Information Technology
• Course: ITEC 4030
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Itec 4030 winter 2011 peter khaiter. Lecture 9 enabling business (it) integration feb 7. Review: bi is the exchange of business-critical information between applications in real time (yee & apte, 2001) Goals: major improvement in business processes, real-time operations, business activity monitoring. Current approaches: routing of documents and forms: wf[m]s, choreography ( orchestration)+ messaging between apps: eai, soa, Scope can include internal systems (eai-enterprise application integration or. Erp-enterprise resource planning) and external ones (b2b integration) System that defines [ ] and manages the execution of workflows through the use of a software [ workflow engine ] able to interpret the process definition, interact with participants and, where required, invoke the use of applications (wfmc). Infrastructure: clients and server(s), middleware, applications, dbms, networks, peripherals. Functional and non-functional requirements: selection of products based on. Benefits include coordinated teamwork (management of work and information flows and electronic handoffs), real-time information (bam), process standardization, process execution synchronized with changing business needs.