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Always stay agile! Towards Service-oriented Integration of Business Process and Business Rules Management

Authors:
Christopher Gäth
Alexander Hödicke
Sophia Marth
Jörn Siedentopf
Andreas Hausotter
Arne Koschel

Keywords: Business Process Management (BPM); Business Rules Management (BRM); Business Rules Management System (BRMS); Service-oriented Architecture (SOA); Workflow Management System (WfMS)

Abstract:
To keep their competitive edge, enterprises need to change their operational processes in a flexible and agile manner. A Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) may help to meet these needs. One key feature of a SOA is the externalisation of business process logic. However, process logic is often complex, hard to understand and difficult to adapt. This issue is due to a mingling of process and decision logic. In order to ensure flexibility and agility, decision logic should be moved to a separate service. There are several approaches to realise such a “rule” service conceptually. In this paper, a decision framework to select the appropriate rules execution approach is developed, based on a set of “factors”. The decision framework is applied to an application scenario from the insurance domain.

Pages: 40 to 43

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: May 25, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3549

ISBN: 978-1-61208-337-7

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from May 25, 2014 to May 29, 2014