Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures

by Mathias Weske

Overview

In this book, Mathias Weske details the complete business process lifecycle from process modeling to process enactment and process evaluation. After starting with the general foundations and abstractions in business process management, he introduces process modeling languages and process choreographies, as well as formal properties of processes and data. Eventually, he presents both traditional and advanced business process management architectures, covering, for example, workflow management systems, service-oriented architectures, and data-driven approaches.
The 4th edition of his book contains significant updates, including a new section on directly follows graphs that play a crucial role in process mining. In addition, the core of declarative process modeling is introduced. The increasingly important role of data in business processes is addressed by a new section on data objects and data models in the data and decision chapter. To cover a recent trend in process automation, the enterprise systems architecture chapter now includes a section on robotic process automation.

Mathias Weske argues that all communities involved need to have a common understanding of the different aspects of business process management. Hence his textbook is ideally suited for classes on business process management, information systems architecture, and workflow management alike. The accompanying website www.bpm-book.com contains further information and additional teaching material.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783662695173
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	07/15/2024
Edition description:	Fourth Edition 2024
Pages:	455
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mathias Weske is a Fellow of the German Computer Science Society and Chair of the Business Process Technology Group at Hasso Plattner Institute at the Digital Engineering Faculty, University of Potsdam, Germany. He aims at addressing real-world problems in business process management with formal approaches and engineering useful prototypes. Mathias is a founding member of the steering committee of the BPM conference series

Table of Contents

Preface .- Part I - Foundation .- 1 Introduction .- 2 Evolution of Enterprise Systems Architectures .- Part II - Business Process Modelling .- 3 Business Process Modelling Foundation .- 4 Process Modelling Languages .- 5 Data and Decisions .- 6 Process Choreographies .- 7 Properties of Business Processes .- Part III - Architectures and Methodologies .- 8 Business Process Management Architectures .- 9 Business Process Management Methodology .- References.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This book presents comprehensive and updated material for anyone interested in getting to know the vast field of BPM. With its excellent organization and use of many figures, it can also be an excellent choice as a text book on BPM.” (Amit Sheth, LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA)

“An extremely well rounded and comprehensive discussion of the subject of business process management.” (Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, San Jose, CA, USA)

“A superb textbook for students in both computer science and business administration. Moreover, it is also very useful for practitioners since it provides a comprehensive coverage of BPM independently of industry hypes around workflow management, business process management, and service-oriented architectures.” (from the Foreword by Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

“Business process management (BPM) is a topic more pressing than ever even 15 years after its inception. Mathias Weske takes an up-to-date, fresh, and comprehensive look at the subject and connects a number of areas to which BPM applies, from a conceptual as well as a technical and an application-oriented point of view. A definitive must-read for anybody studying or working in this area.” (Gottfried Vossen, European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Muenster)

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition:

“The subject Business process management is of interest to professional in business administration and computer science. … The author opines that both the communities need to have a common understanding of the different aspects of business process management. In this context, he details the complete business process lifecycle from the modeling phase to process enactment and improvement, taking into account all different stakeholders involved. … This is an ideal text book for the students for CSE & business administration.” (CSI eNewsletter, Vol. 3 (10), November, 2012)

From the Publisher