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Workflow Handbook 2004

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Workflow Handbook 2004 is perfect for someone in my position. I am trying to get up to speed in workflow technology, for I believe it will totally revamp IT and the way business is performed. Most books in the field offer one author's opinion, but the Handbook provides dozens. Plus, it provides the definitive work on BP notation and other fundamentals. The Appendix contains a veritable who's who in the workflow community. This book will come in very handy here at the Workflow Institute.

The 2004 Workflow Handbook is a critical reference for both newcomers to, and seasoned professionals of, workflow and business process management. Among the most dynamic techno-business developments of recent years, workflow and BPM promise to rewrite how companies develop, manage and change core processes, driving greater productivity, agility and ROI, and improving competitive edge. The book ranges from Web services orchestration and `intelligent' BPM, to business process outsourcing, workflow-based business monitoring, standards, and new market opportunities for BPM, to name just a few of the topics. The authors - some 50 of them - comprise a distinguished list of some of the world's leading academicians and technologists in both workflow and BPM.

I found the handbook to be extremely insightful in terms of forward-looking workflow research and current endeavors, particularly wrt web-related and adaptive processes. Overall, a great continuation in breadth and innovation to the handbook series.

Table of Contents from SECTIONS 1 and 2.

SECTION 1-THE WORLD OF WORKFLOW

The Split Personality of BPM

Derek Miers, Enix Consulting, United Kingdom


Metrics Based Business Process Management

Tommy Hansen, Mike Marin and Khoi Dang, FileNet, United States


Web Services Orchestration and Management Through Intelligent BPM

Setrag Khoshafian, Ph.D., Pegasystems Inc., USA


Workflow-based Business Monitoring

Stefan Junginger, BOC Information Technologies Consulting GmbH, Germany; Harald Kühn and Franz Bayer, BOC Information Systems GmbH, Austria; Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria


Workflow Implementation of Change Lifecycle for Product Configuration Management

P Jiang, J Newman, Q Mair, E Valfre, J-F Calm, C Wiles, G Segarra, I Viglietti, F Feru, T Visnovec & K Causse


Adaptive Process Management

Eric Y. Shan, University of California, Berkeley, California; Fabio Casati and Ming-Chien Shan, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California


Scorecard-based Process Controlling Linking Business Objectives to Workflow Execution

Joerg Becker, Tobias Rieke; University of Muenster, Germany


Workflow and Business Process Outsourcing: Friend or Foe?

Narinder Singh, webMethods Workflow, United States


Workflow Management Middleware for Secure Distance-Spanning Collaborative Engineering

Tim Schattkowsky, Wolfgang Mueller, Adam Pawlak; C-LAB, Paderborn, Germany; Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland


Optimizing Rehabilitation Patient Scheduling Using Process-Simulation

Varun Panchapakesan, CACI, Inc., United States


Collaboration-enabled Process Management (CPM)

Martin Ader, W&GS, France



Spotlight on the Pacific Rim

Asia-Pacific: The Next Frontier for BPM

Linus Chow, Regional Director, HandySoft Global Corp., Asia-Pacific; Ken Loke, Director, Bizmann Systems, SE Asia; Suraj Goyal, Deputy GM, Datamatics Technologies, India.


Workflow in Japan: When Tradition Meets Technology

Dr. Geoffrey Long, KAISHA-Tec, Japan


Cooperative Fragment-driven Workflow Modeling Methodology and System

Kwang-Hoon Kim, Dong-Keun Oh, Jung-Hoon Lee, Jae-Kang Won, Hyong-Mok Kim; Kyonggi University, South Korea


An Intelligent and Personalized Enterprise Process Portal

Chi-Tsai Yang and Bin-Shiang Liang; Flowring Technology, Taiwan; Shung-Bin Yan and Feng-Jian Wang: Computer Science and Information Engineering National Chiaotung University, Taiwan




SECTION 2-WORKFLOW STANDARDS


ASAP/Wf-XML 2.0 Cookbook

Keith D Swenson, Fujitsu Software Corporation, United States


Creating Process Efficiencies by Combining BPM and BPO

Bob Puccinelli, DST Technologies, Inc., United States


Workflow Service Provider with XPDL

Arnaud Bezancon, ADVANTYS, France

Process Modeling Notations and Workflow Patterns

Dr. Stephen White, IBM Corp., United States

The Workflow Reference Model: 10 Years On

David Hollingsworth, Fujitsu Services, United Kingdom; Chair, Technical Committee, WfMC.

Most of the reviews are by the authors themselves. Obviously some kind marketing gimmick and is definitely a conflict of interest. How can Amazon let an author review his/her book.

A very helful book for workflow applications. The case studies gave me idea for my own project.

I am an author of one of the chapters in the book. While working on a number of internet protocols around workflow and BPM, I needed a way to get non-formal helpful descriptions of different standards into practitioners hands. I chose to include the chapter in the workflow handbook because as far as I can tell, it is the only compendium of current BPM and workflow material available. Many of the experts in the field have articles in the book. If you have a basic understanding of business process systems, and you need to dig a little deeper and get up to date on the latest developments, this book is a good way to come up to speed quickly.

I have been strongly recommending the series of workflow handbooks to my students and colleagues as an excellent guidebook. The workflow handbooks give us diverse research and development issues and status in the worldwide workflow and BPM arena.