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The Value of Roles in Modeling Business Processes

Alain Wegmann, Pavel Balabko
2004
Conference Papers

Abstract

Rapid business changes require companies to make rapid changes in business processes and ultimately in BPS systems. These changes can be done rapidly if business modelers understand the base roles of business processes and relationships between these roles. In this paper we present an alternative to the traditional business processes modeling approaches. In our approach we make explicit roles present in business processes. This facilitates business process reengineering and improves the alignment between business and supporting systems.

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Alain Wegmann, Pavel Balabko
2004
Conference Papers

Abstract

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/de4eea66-0666-404e-9faa-4e33c12ff51c

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Business process modeling

Business process modeling (BPM) in business process management and systems engineering is the activity of representing processes of an enterprise, so that the current business processes may be analyzed, improved, and automated. BPM is typically performed by business analysts, who provide expertise in the modeling discipline; by subject matter experts, who have specialized knowledge of the processes being modeled; or more commonly by a team comprising both. Alternatively, the process model can be derived directly from events' logs using process mining tools.

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Business process re-engineering

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