• a business-process-driven methodology for deriving the essential parts/artifacts of the resulting business application;

• a sustainable and flexible architecture for process-driven applications separating the problem space in several layers;

• the general usage of BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) for modeling as well as implementing all processes (business processes as well as technical integration processes) of a process-driven application.

As the topic is closely related to service-oriented architecture (SOA), the course will also briefly touch the basic technologies and concepts in the SOA domain (e.g. XML, Web Services, SOAP, UDDI registries, repositories, WSDL).

Goals of the course:

• Identify the use case for processoriented information systems.

• Understand the complexity and challenges of process-oriented information systems.

• Understand the need for a sustainable methodology and architecture to address the challenges.

• Learn how to separate functionalities in different layers and how to implement each of those layers to keep the flexibility companies require.

• Use the BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) standard for modeling and implementing all kinds of pro-cesses within a process oriented application.

• Embrace the heterogeneous IT landscape in companies which has grown over several years.

• Learn how the flexibility of applications can be increased by using business rules management systems (BRMS) and analytical applications.

Contents

In a globalized world enterprises are facing tough challenges as changes are permanently accompanying them. As a con-sequence companies have to adapt their differentiating busi-nesses processes in even shorter timeframes. If they do not follow these changes, they are threatening their existence. Ideally the company’s IT department can help in overcoming those challenges by taking their part in implementing the com-pany’s strategy as fast as possible. Unfortunately the key question remains unanswered: How can an IT department en-sure the fast implementation of new strategic processes so that they become a key pillar for a company? This course will address the question from different angles and will come up with solutions which primarily rely on the following three pillars:

• a business-process-driven methodology for deriving the essential parts/artifacts of the resulting business applica-tion;

• a sustainable and flexible architecture for process-driven applications separating the problem space in several lay-ers;

• the general usage of BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) for modeling as well as implementing all processes (business processes as well as technical inte-gration processes) of a process-driven application.

As the topic is closely related to service-oriented architecture (SOA), the course will also briefly touch the basic technologies and concepts in the SOA domain (e.g. XML, Web Services, SOAP, UDDI registries, repositories, WSDL).

Goals of the course:

• Identify the use case for processoriented information systems.

• Understand the complexity and challenges of processoriented information systems.

• Understand the need for a sustainable methodology and architecture to address the challenges.

• Learn how to separate functionalities in different layers and how to implement each of those layers to keep the flexibility companies require.

• Use the BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) standard for modeling and implementing all kinds of processes within a process oriented application.

• Embrace the heterogeneous IT landscape in companies which has grown over several years.

• Learn how the flexibility of applications can be increased by using business rules management systems (BRMS) and analytical applications.

Literature

Josuttis, Nicolai: SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design (2007)
Hohpe, Gregor; Woolf, Bobby: Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (2003)
Stiehl, Volker: Composite Application Systems - Systematisches Konstruieren von Verbundanwendungen unter Verwendung von BPMN (2011) Download: http://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/2751/ (unfortunately available in German only)

UE: Übungen zu Prozessorientierte Informationssysteme

Dozent/in: Dipl.-Inf. Peter Schwab
Zeit und Ort: Mo 8:30 - 10:00, H4