IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'06)
Configuring Processes and Business Documents - An Integrated Approach to Enterprise Systems Collaboration
Shanghai, China
October 24-October 26
ISBN: 0-7695-2645-4
Alexander Dreiling, SAP Research SAP Australia Pty Ltd. Level 12, 133 Mary St Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia
Ulrike Greiner, SAP Research SAP AG Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 176131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Enterprise Systems (ES) provide standardized, off-theshelf support for operations and management within organizations. With the advent of ES based on a serviceoriented architecture (SOA) and an increasing demand of IT-supported interorganizational collaboration, implementation projects face paradigmatically new challenges. The configuration of ES is costly and error-prone. Dependencies between business processes and business documents are hardly explicit and foster component proliferation instead of reuse. Configurative modeling can support the problem in two ways: First, conceptual modeling abstracts from technical details and provides more intuitive access and overview. Second, configuration allows the projection of variants from master models providing manageable variants with controlled flexibility. We aim at tackling the problem by proposing an integrated model-based framework for configuring both, processes and business documents, on an equal basis; as together, they constitute the core business components of an ES.
Citation:
Christian Janiesch, Alexander Dreiling, Ulrike Greiner, Sonia Lippe, "Configuring Processes and Business Documents - An Integrated Approach to Enterprise Systems Collaboration," icebe, pp.516-521, IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'06), 2006