PO-JRA-2.1.1 State-of-the-art survey on business process modelling and Management

In its simplest form, Business Process Management (BPM) is a suite of software technologies focusing on the management of the complete lifecycle of a business process. To date, most BPM deployments have been narrow in scope, adopting an organization-centric view and providing only improvements in specific business functions. As a result, current BPM suites only enable organizations to enhance their existing processes. The next-generation of service-enabled BPM will serve as a means of developing mission-critical applications based on strategic technology capable of creating and executing crossenterprise collaborative business processes and business-aware transactions, so that organizations can deploy, monitor, and continuously update cross-enterprise functions within a mixed environment of people, content, and systems. Such collaborative, complex end-to-end service interactions give raise to the concept of Agile Service Networks. In this report, we assess the state-of-the-art in BPM, surveying the basic concepts, describe the features, techniques and enabling technologies necessary for making BPM a reality and explain the need for service-based BPM. The report also highlights the need for moving from a relatively static and organization-centric view of BPM to a much more dynamic, highvalue one based on Agile Service Networks.

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