Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures [Hardcover]

Mathias Weske (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 3540735216 | ISBN-13: 978-3540735212 | Publication Date: November 3, 2007 | Edition: 1

This textbook is ideally suited for classes on business process management, information systems architecture, and workflow management. It is also valuable for project managers and IT professionals working in business process management, since it provides a vendor-independent view on the topic. The accompanying website contains further information, such as links to references that are available online, exercises that offer the reader a deeper involvement with the topics addressed, and additional teaching material.

Editorial Reviews

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"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

From the Back Cover

Business process management is usually treated from two different perspectives: business administration and computer science. While business administration professionals tend to consider information technology as a subordinate aspect for experts to handle, by contrast computer scientists often consider business goals and organizational regulations as terms that do not deserve much thought but require the appropriate level of abstraction. Mathias Weske argues that the communities involved need to share a common understanding of the principles underlying business process management. To this end, he develops an overall picture that describes core BPM concepts and technologies and explains their relationships. This picture covers high-level business aspects like business goals, strategies, and value chains, but it concentrates on process modeling techniques and process enactment platforms, taking into account the different stakeholders involved. After starting with a presentation of general foundations, process orchestrations and process choreographies are covered. Based on control flow patterns, concrete process languages are introduced in a concise manner, including Workflow nets, Event-driven Process Chains, Yet Another Workflow Language, and the Business Process Modeling Notation. The various stages during the design and implementation of process choreographies are discussed. Different soundness properties are investigated in a chapter on formal aspects of business processes. Finally, he investigates concrete architectures to enact business processes, including workflow management architectures, case handling architectures and service-oriented architectures. He also shows how standards like SOAP, WSDL, and BPEL fit into the picture. This textbook is ideally suited for classes on business process management, information systems architecture, and workflow management. It is also valuable for project managers and IT professionals working in business process management, since it provides a vendor-independent view on the topic. The accompanying website www.bpm-book.com contains further information, such as links to references that are available online, exercises that offer the reader a deeper involvement with the topics addressed, and additional teaching material.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 382 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (November 3, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540735216
• ISBN-13: 978-3540735212
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,022 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Definitive Source, December 30, 2008

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Danny Kerdine (Paris, France) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures (Hardcover)

This is a fairly formal presentation of the subject; even though, it is quite easy to follow and does not "dry up". A possible reason for this is the author's use of many straight forward and elementary examples that he creates to paint his rhetoric.

It is evident the he is not only an expert at writing about business process management, but also in spanning the theory of it, and encapsulating that in this concise work. It is also evident that much collaboration was performed with Wil van der Aalst, and others in that group, and so Aalst's book "Workflow Management" co-written by Kees van Hee, fits nicely inside this one. Which is not to say that it is needed, the work stands alone as a definitive source -- perhaps a classic, when those general business folk become a bit more foundational minded.

0 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars everything ok, December 6, 2008

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Michele Cervini (Milan, Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures (Hardcover)

everything ok. with standard shipping the book took about three week to come to Italy (from Phoenix).