BPMBPMhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/3308012024-03-28T17:43:50Z2024-03-28T17:43:50ZBPM 1.1Wilfrid Utzhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/330801/BPM?_36_version=1.12015-03-25T19:16:59Z2015-03-25T19:16:59Z<h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"> </span><span class="diff-html-added" id="added-diff-0" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">Business Process Management </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"><!----></span></h3><p><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">This page covers general terms around the area of Business Processes and Business Process Management. For terms specifically related to CloudSocket and Business Process as a Service </span><a href=""><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">refer to this page</span></a><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">. </span></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"> Business Process </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"><!----></span></h3><p><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">Business Processes are seen as a sequence of manual, semi-automatic and automatic actions with the aim to achieve an organisational goal.</span><br><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"><!----></span></br></p><p><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">The focus is to align all actions within an organisation with the business goals, independent if they are performed by machines, humans or a group consisting of several machines and / or several humans. Actions are typically described in time, role and place dependent, hence every "hand-over" of a task, or any "reminder" to again come back to a task is seen as the border of an activity.</span><br><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"><!----></span></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Workflow"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"> Workflow </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Workflow"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"><!----></span></h3><p><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">Workflows are seen as a sequence of executable software components that are interpreted as a configuration set for a workflow engine, which automatically invokes the sequence of software components. </span></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment "><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"> Business IT-Alignment </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment "><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"><!----></span></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"> Business Cloud-IT Alignment </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"><!----></span></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"> Executable Business Process (FHOSTER) </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"><!----></span></h3><p><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">Executable model of a flow of structured tasks required produce a specific service, derived from a BPM and enriched with all the information required to be executed by a BPM Engine. </span></p><h3 id="section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"> BPM Engine (FHoster) </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"><!----></span></h3><p><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">The BPM Engine is a server component (no GUI) with its own persistence, that can be used by software clients via an API. The BPM Engine must not be confused with the other components of a business process management suite, like the modeling environment or the end-user workspace client. </span></p><p><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">An example tool is the ATOS YourBPM server component. </span></p>Wilfrid Utz2015-03-25T19:16:59ZBPM 1.2 (次要编辑)Wilfrid Utzhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/330801/BPM?_36_version=1.22015-03-25T19:26:04Z2015-03-25T19:26:04Z<h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management"> Business Process Management <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management">#</a></h3><p>This page covers general terms around the area of Business Processes and Business Process Management. For terms specifically related to CloudSocket and Business Process as a Service <a href="">refer to this page</a>. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process"> Business Process <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process">#</a></h3><p>Business Processes are seen as a sequence of manual, semi-automatic and automatic actions with the aim to achieve an organisational goal.<br><!----></br></p><p>The focus is to align all actions within an organisation with the business goals, independent if they are performed by machines, humans or a group consisting of several machines and / or several humans. Actions are typically described in time, role and place dependent, hence every "hand-over" of a task, or any "reminder" to again come back to a task is seen as the border of an activity. <span class="diff-html-changed" id="changed-diff-0" changes="Moved out of a <b>break</b>." previous="first-diff" changeId="changed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0"><!----></span></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Workflow"> Workflow <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Workflow">#</a></h3><p>Workflows are seen as a sequence of executable software components that are interpreted as a configuration set for a workflow engine, which automatically invokes the sequence of software components. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment "> Business IT-Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment ">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment"> Business Cloud-IT Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Model"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"> </span><span class="diff-html-added" id="added-diff-0" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">Business Process Model </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Model"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-added" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"><!----></span></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)"> Executable Business Process (FHOSTER) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)">#</a></h3><p>Executable model of a flow of structured tasks required produce a specific service, derived from a BPM and enriched with all the information required to be executed by a BPM Engine. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)"> BPM Engine (FHoster) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)">#</a></h3><p>The BPM Engine is a server component (no GUI) with its own persistence, that can be used by software clients via an API. The BPM Engine must not be confused with the other components of a business process management suite, like the modeling environment or the end-user workspace client. </p><p>An example tool is the ATOS YourBPM server component. </p>Wilfrid Utz2015-03-25T19:26:04ZBPM 1.3Wilfrid Utzhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/330801/BPM?_36_version=1.32015-03-26T10:37:21Z2015-03-26T10:37:21Z<h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management"> Business Process Management <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management">#</a></h3><p>This page covers general terms around the area of Business Processes and Business Process Management. For terms specifically related to CloudSocket and Business Process as a Service <a href="">refer to this page</a>. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process"> Business Process <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process">#</a></h3><p>Business Processes are seen as a sequence of manual, semi-automatic and automatic actions with the aim to achieve an organisational goal.<br><!----></br></p><p>The focus is to align all actions within an organisation with the business goals, independent if they are performed by machines, humans or a group consisting of several machines and / or several humans. Actions are typically described in time, role and place dependent, hence every "hand-over" of a task, or any "reminder" to again come back to a task is seen as the border of an activity. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Workflow"> Workflow <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Workflow">#</a></h3><p>Workflows are seen as a sequence of executable software components that are interpreted as a configuration set for a workflow engine, which automatically invokes the sequence of software components. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment "> Business IT-Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment ">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment"> Business Cloud-IT Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Model"> Business Process Model <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Model">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)"> Executable Business Process (FHOSTER) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)">#</a></h3><p>Executable model of a flow of structured tasks required produce a specific service, derived from a BPM and enriched with all the information required to be executed by a BPM Engine. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)"> BPM Engine (FHoster) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)">#</a></h3><p>The BPM Engine is a server component (no GUI) with its own persistence, that can be used by software clients via an API. The BPM Engine must not be confused with the other components of a business process management suite, like the modeling environment or the end-user workspace client. </p><p>An example tool is the ATOS YourBPM server component. </p>Wilfrid Utz2015-03-26T10:37:21ZBPM 1.4Wilfrid Utzhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/330801/BPM?_36_version=1.42015-03-26T18:27:45Z2015-03-26T18:27:45Z<h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management"> Business Process Management <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management">#</a></h3><p>This page covers general terms around the area of Business Processes and Business Process Management. For terms specifically related to CloudSocket and Business Process as a Service <a href="">refer to this page</a>. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process"> Business Process <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process">#</a></h3><p>Business Processes are seen as a sequence of manual, semi-automatic and automatic actions with the aim to achieve an organisational goal.<br><!----></br></p><p>The focus is to align all actions within an organisation with the business goals, independent if they are performed by machines, humans or a group consisting of several machines and / or several humans. Actions are typically described in time, role and place dependent, hence every "hand-over" of a task, or any "reminder" to again come back to a task is seen as the border of an activity. </p><p><span class="diff-html-added" id="added-diff-0" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">Business Process (ATOS) </span></p><p><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">A business process is an activity or set of activities (manual or automated) designed to accomplish a specific organizational goal. These activities can be services that process need to call in order to execute different automatic steps of the whole process. This business process is defined through different standards, as the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) or Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN). </span></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Workflow"> Workflow <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Workflow">#</a></h3><p>Workflows are seen as a sequence of executable software components that are interpreted as a configuration set for a workflow engine, which automatically invokes the sequence of software components. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment "> Business IT-Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment ">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment"> Business Cloud-IT Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Model"> Business Process Model <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Model">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)"> Executable Business Process (FHOSTER) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)">#</a></h3><p>Executable model of a flow of structured tasks required produce a specific service, derived from a BPM and enriched with all the information required to be executed by a BPM Engine. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)"> BPM Engine (FHoster) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)">#</a></h3><p>The BPM Engine is a server component (no GUI) with its own persistence, that can be used by software clients via an API. The BPM Engine must not be confused with the other components of a business process management suite, like the modeling environment or the end-user workspace client. </p><p>An example tool is the ATOS YourBPM server component. </p>Wilfrid Utz2015-03-26T18:27:45ZBPM 1.5Wilfrid Utzhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/330801/BPM?_36_version=1.52015-03-26T19:08:01Z2015-03-26T19:08:01Z<h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management"> Business Process Management <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management">#</a></h3><p>This page covers general terms around the area of Business Processes and Business Process Management. For terms specifically related to CloudSocket and Business Process as a Service <a href="">refer to this page</a>. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process"> Business Process <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process">#</a></h3><p>Business Processes are seen as a sequence of manual, semi-automatic and automatic actions with the aim to achieve an organisational goal.<br><!----></br></p><p>The focus is to align all actions within an organisation with the business goals, independent if they are performed by machines, humans or a group consisting of several machines and / or several humans. Actions are typically described in time, role and place dependent, hence every "hand-over" of a task, or any "reminder" to again come back to a task is seen as the border of an activity. </p><p>Business Process (ATOS) </p><p>A business process is an activity or set of activities (manual or automated) designed to accomplish a specific organizational goal. These activities can be services that process need to call in order to execute different automatic steps of the whole process. This business process is defined through different standards, as the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) or Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN). </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Workflow"> Workflow <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Workflow">#</a></h3><p>Workflows are seen as a sequence of executable software components that are interpreted as a configuration set for a workflow engine, which automatically invokes the sequence of software components. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment "> Business IT-Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment ">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment"> Business Cloud-IT Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Model"> Business Process Model <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Model">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)"> Executable Business Process (FHOSTER) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)">#</a></h3><p>Executable model of a flow of structured tasks required produce a specific service, derived from a BPM and enriched with all the information required to be executed by a BPM Engine. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)"> BPM Engine (FHoster) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)">#</a></h3><p>The BPM Engine is a server component (no GUI) with its own persistence, that can be used by software clients via an API. The BPM Engine must not be confused with the other components of a business process management suite, like the modeling environment or the end-user workspace client. </p><p>An example tool is the ATOS YourBPM server component. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Instance"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"> </span><span class="diff-html-added" id="added-diff-0" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">Business Process Instance </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Instance"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"><!----></span></h3><p><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">The business process has to be defined as a single enter point that allows the end-user to use this process without worrying about the deployment, configuration and maintenance of all the services involved in this business process. It could include the use services/components across Multi-cloud infrastructure. At the end, the end-user will see a single service that creates an instance. So, we need to introduce the concept of multi-tenant, since different end-users (SME, governmental institutions...) want to use the same defined business process as a service. Maybe, we can describe a simple example that describes this BPaaS. </span></p>Wilfrid Utz2015-03-26T19:08:01ZBPM 1.6Wilfrid Utzhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/330801/BPM?_36_version=1.62015-03-26T19:11:50Z2015-03-26T19:11:50Z<h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management"> Business Process Management <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management">#</a></h3><p>This page covers general terms around the area of Business Processes and Business Process Management. For terms specifically related to CloudSocket and Business Process as a Service <a href="">refer to this page</a>. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process"> Business Process <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process">#</a></h3><p>Business Processes are seen as a sequence of manual, semi-automatic and automatic actions with the aim to achieve an organisational goal.<br><!----></br></p><p>The focus is to align all actions within an organisation with the business goals, independent if they are performed by machines, humans or a group consisting of several machines and / or several humans. Actions are typically described in time, role and place dependent, hence every "hand-over" of a task, or any "reminder" to again come back to a task is seen as the border of an activity. </p><p>Business Process (ATOS) </p><p>A business process is an activity or set of activities (manual or automated) designed to accomplish a specific organizational goal. These activities can be services that process need to call in order to execute different automatic steps of the whole process. This business process is defined through different standards, as the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) or Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN). </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Workflow"> Workflow <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Workflow">#</a></h3><p>Workflows are seen as a sequence of executable software components that are interpreted as a configuration set for a workflow engine, which automatically invokes the sequence of software components. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment "> Business IT-Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment ">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment"> Business Cloud-IT Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Model"> Business Process Model <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Model">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)"> Executable Business Process (FHOSTER) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)">#</a></h3><p>Executable model of a flow of structured tasks required produce a specific service, derived from a BPM and enriched with all the information required to be executed by a BPM Engine. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)"> BPM Engine (FHoster) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)">#</a></h3><p>The BPM Engine is a server component (no GUI) with its own persistence, that can be used by software clients via an API. The BPM Engine must not be confused with the other components of a business process management suite, like the modeling environment or the end-user workspace client. </p><p>An example tool is the ATOS YourBPM server component. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Instance"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="first-diff" changeId="removed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0"> </span><span class="diff-html-removed" id="removed-diff-0" previous="first-diff" changeId="removed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0">Business Process Instance </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Instance"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="first-diff" changeId="removed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="first-diff" changeId="removed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0"><!----></span></h3><p><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="first-diff" changeId="removed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0">The business process has to be defined as a single enter point that allows the end-user to use this process without worrying about the deployment, configuration and maintenance of all the services involved in this business process. It could include the use services/components across Multi-cloud infrastructure. At the end, the end-user will see a single service that creates an instance. So, we need to introduce the concept of multi-tenant, since different end-users (SME, governmental institutions...) want to use the same defined business process as a service. Maybe, we can describe a simple example that describes this BPaaS. </span></p><h3 id="section-BPM-\\"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="removed-diff-0" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"> </span><span class="diff-html-added" id="added-diff-0" previous="removed-diff-0" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">\\ </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-\\"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="removed-diff-0" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-added" previous="removed-diff-0" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"><!----></span></h3>Wilfrid Utz2015-03-26T19:11:50ZBPM 1.7Wilfrid Utzhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/330801/BPM?_36_version=1.72015-03-27T12:16:24Z2015-03-27T12:16:24Z<h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management"> Business Process Management <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management">#</a></h3><p>This page covers general terms around the area of Business Processes and Business Process Management. For terms specifically related to CloudSocket and Business Process as a Service <a href="">refer to this page</a>. </p><p><span class="diff-html-changed" id="changed-diff-0" changes="<ul class='changelist'><li>Moved out of a <b>heading (level 3)</b> with id <br/>section-BPM-Business+Process.</li><li>Moved to a <b>paragraph</b>.</li></ul>" previous="first-diff" changeId="changed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0">Business Process </span><span class="diff-html-added" id="added-diff-0" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">Management System (BPMS) </span></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"> Business Process </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process">#</a></h3><p>Business Processes are seen as a sequence of manual, semi-automatic and automatic actions with the aim to achieve an organisational goal.<br><!----></br></p><p>The focus is to align all actions within an organisation with the business goals, independent if they are performed by machines, humans or a group consisting of several machines and / or several humans. Actions are typically described in time, role and place dependent, hence every "hand-over" of a task, or any "reminder" to again come back to a task is seen as the border of an activity. </p><p>Business Process (ATOS) </p><p>A business process is an activity or set of activities (manual or automated) designed to accomplish a specific organizational goal. These activities can be services that process need to call in order to execute different automatic steps of the whole process. This business process is defined through different standards, as the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) or Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN). </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Workflow"> Workflow <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Workflow">#</a></h3><p>Workflows are seen as a sequence of executable software components that are interpreted as a configuration set for a workflow engine, which automatically invokes the sequence of software components. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment "> Business IT-Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment ">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment"> Business Cloud-IT Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Model"> Business Process Model <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Model">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)"> Executable Business Process (FHOSTER) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)">#</a></h3><p>Executable model of a flow of structured tasks required produce a specific service, derived from a BPM and enriched with all the information required to be executed by a BPM Engine. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)"> BPM Engine (FHoster) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)">#</a></h3><p>The BPM Engine is a server component (no GUI) with its own persistence, that can be used by software clients via an API. The BPM Engine must not be confused with the other components of a business process management suite, like the modeling environment or the end-user workspace client. </p><p>An example tool is the ATOS YourBPM server component. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-\\"> \\ <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-\\">#</a></h3>Wilfrid Utz2015-03-27T12:16:24ZBPM 1.8Wilfrid Utzhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/330801/BPM?_36_version=1.82015-03-27T12:16:37Z2015-03-27T12:16:37Z<h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management"> Business Process Management <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management">#</a></h3><p>This page covers general terms around the area of Business Processes and Business Process Management. For terms specifically related to CloudSocket and Business Process as a Service <a href="">refer to this page</a>. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management+System+(BPMS)"><span class="diff-html-changed" changes="<ul class='changelist'><li>Moved out of a <b>paragraph</b>.</li><li>Moved to a <b>heading (level 3)</b> with id <br/>section-BPM-Business+Process+Management+System+(BPMS).</li></ul>" previous="first-diff" changeId="changed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0"> </span><span class="diff-html-changed" id="changed-diff-0" changes="<ul class='changelist'><li>Moved out of a <b>paragraph</b>.</li><li>Moved to a <b>heading (level 3)</b> with id <br/>section-BPM-Business+Process+Management+System+(BPMS).</li></ul>" previous="first-diff" changeId="changed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0">Business Process Management System (BPMS) </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management+System+(BPMS)"><span class="diff-html-added" id="added-diff-0" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="added-diff-0" next="changed-diff-1">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-changed" id="changed-diff-1" changes="<ul class='changelist'><li>Moved out of a <b>paragraph</b>.</li><li>Moved to a <b>heading (level 3)</b> with id <br/>section-BPM-Business+Process+Management+System+(BPMS).</li></ul>" previous="added-diff-0" changeId="changed-diff-1" next="last-diff"><!----></span></h3><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process"> Business Process <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process">#</a></h3><p>Business Processes are seen as a sequence of manual, semi-automatic and automatic actions with the aim to achieve an organisational goal.<br><!----></br></p><p>The focus is to align all actions within an organisation with the business goals, independent if they are performed by machines, humans or a group consisting of several machines and / or several humans. Actions are typically described in time, role and place dependent, hence every "hand-over" of a task, or any "reminder" to again come back to a task is seen as the border of an activity. </p><p>Business Process (ATOS) </p><p>A business process is an activity or set of activities (manual or automated) designed to accomplish a specific organizational goal. These activities can be services that process need to call in order to execute different automatic steps of the whole process. This business process is defined through different standards, as the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) or Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN). </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Workflow"> Workflow <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Workflow">#</a></h3><p>Workflows are seen as a sequence of executable software components that are interpreted as a configuration set for a workflow engine, which automatically invokes the sequence of software components. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment "> Business IT-Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment ">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment"> Business Cloud-IT Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Model"> Business Process Model <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Model">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)"> Executable Business Process (FHOSTER) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)">#</a></h3><p>Executable model of a flow of structured tasks required produce a specific service, derived from a BPM and enriched with all the information required to be executed by a BPM Engine. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)"> BPM Engine (FHoster) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)">#</a></h3><p>The BPM Engine is a server component (no GUI) with its own persistence, that can be used by software clients via an API. The BPM Engine must not be confused with the other components of a business process management suite, like the modeling environment or the end-user workspace client. </p><p>An example tool is the ATOS YourBPM server component. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-\\"> \\ <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-\\">#</a></h3>Wilfrid Utz2015-03-27T12:16:37ZBPM 1.9Wilfrid Utzhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/330801/BPM?_36_version=1.92015-03-27T12:17:45Z2015-03-27T12:17:45Z<h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management"> Business Process Management <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management">#</a></h3><p>This page covers general terms around the area of Business Processes and Business Process Management. For terms specifically related to CloudSocket and Business Process as a Service <a href="">refer to this page</a>. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management+System+(BPMS)"> Business Process Management System (BPMS) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management+System+(BPMS)">#</a></h3><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process"> Business Process <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process">#</a></h3><p>Business Processes are seen as a sequence of manual, semi-automatic and automatic actions with the aim to achieve an organisational goal.<br><!----></br></p><p>The focus is to align all actions within an organisation with the business goals, independent if they are performed by machines, humans or a group consisting of several machines and / or several humans. Actions are typically described in time, role and place dependent, hence every "hand-over" of a task, or any "reminder" to again come back to a task is seen as the border of an activity. </p><p><span class="diff-html-added" id="added-diff-0" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">There is a set of different application field for business processes such as but not limited to quality management, risk management, re-engineering, continues improvement, documentation, training but also model driven architecture and requirement analysis. The first set of application fields have clearly the model as "Information Value Provider" in mind, hence graphical models are not seen as some necessary step to move on to concrete sofware code, but are seen as an independent document type that is necessary to perform day to day work within the organisation. </span><br><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff"><!----></span></br></p><p><span class="diff-html-added" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">The second set of application fields is concerned with, the model driven architecture, software requirement analysis, configuration of software components or software design. In such application scenarios the so-called business and IT alignment must be performed by bridging form the domain centric business process towards the technology centric workflows. </span></p><p>Business Process (ATOS) </p><p>A business process is an activity or set of activities (manual or automated) designed to accomplish a specific organizational goal. These activities can be services that process need to call in order to execute different automatic steps of the whole process. This business process is defined through different standards, as the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) or Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN). </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Workflow"> Workflow <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Workflow">#</a></h3><p>Workflows are seen as a sequence of executable software components that are interpreted as a configuration set for a workflow engine, which automatically invokes the sequence of software components. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment "> Business IT-Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment ">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment"> Business Cloud-IT Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Model"> Business Process Model <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Model">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)"> Executable Business Process (FHOSTER) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)">#</a></h3><p>Executable model of a flow of structured tasks required produce a specific service, derived from a BPM and enriched with all the information required to be executed by a BPM Engine. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)"> BPM Engine (FHoster) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)">#</a></h3><p>The BPM Engine is a server component (no GUI) with its own persistence, that can be used by software clients via an API. The BPM Engine must not be confused with the other components of a business process management suite, like the modeling environment or the end-user workspace client. </p><p>An example tool is the ATOS YourBPM server component. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-\\"> \\ <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-\\">#</a></h3>Wilfrid Utz2015-03-27T12:17:45ZBPM 2.0Wilfrid Utzhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/330801/BPM?_36_version=2.02015-03-27T12:18:02Z2015-03-27T12:18:02Z<h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management"> Business Process Management <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management">#</a></h3><p>This page covers general terms around the area of Business Processes and Business Process Management. For terms specifically related to CloudSocket and Business Process as a Service <a href="">refer to this page</a>. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management+System+(BPMS)"> Business Process Management System (BPMS) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management+System+(BPMS)">#</a></h3><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process"> Business Process <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process">#</a></h3><p>Business Processes are seen as a sequence of manual, semi-automatic and automatic actions with the aim to achieve an organisational goal.<br><!----></br></p><p>The focus is to align all actions within an organisation with the business goals, independent if they are performed by machines, humans or a group consisting of several machines and / or several humans. Actions are typically described in time, role and place dependent, hence every "hand-over" of a task, or any "reminder" to again come back to a task is seen as the border of an activity. </p><p>There is a set of different application field for business processes such as but not limited to quality management, risk management, re-engineering, continues improvement, documentation, training but also model driven architecture and requirement analysis. The first set of application fields have clearly the model as "Information Value Provider" in mind, hence graphical models are not seen as some necessary step to move on to concrete sofware code, but are seen as an independent document type that is necessary to perform day to day work within the organisation. <br><!----></br></p><p>The second set of application fields is concerned with, the model driven architecture, software requirement analysis, configuration of software components or software design. In such application scenarios the so-called business and IT alignment must be performed by bridging form the domain centric business process towards the technology centric workflows. </p><h4 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+(ATOS)"><span class="diff-html-changed" changes="<ul class='changelist'><li>Moved out of a <b>paragraph</b>.</li><li>Moved to a <b>heading (level 4)</b> with id <br/>section-BPM-Business+Process+(ATOS).</li></ul>" previous="first-diff" changeId="changed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0"> </span><span class="diff-html-changed" id="changed-diff-0" changes="<ul class='changelist'><li>Moved out of a <b>paragraph</b>.</li><li>Moved to a <b>heading (level 4)</b> with id <br/>section-BPM-Business+Process+(ATOS).</li></ul>" previous="first-diff" changeId="changed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0">Business Process (ATOS) </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+(ATOS)"><span class="diff-html-added" id="added-diff-0" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="added-diff-0" next="changed-diff-1">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-changed" id="changed-diff-1" changes="<ul class='changelist'><li>Moved out of a <b>paragraph</b>.</li><li>Moved to a <b>heading (level 4)</b> with id <br/>section-BPM-Business+Process+(ATOS).</li></ul>" previous="added-diff-0" changeId="changed-diff-1" next="last-diff"><!----></span></h4><p>A business process is an activity or set of activities (manual or automated) designed to accomplish a specific organizational goal. These activities can be services that process need to call in order to execute different automatic steps of the whole process. This business process is defined through different standards, as the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) or Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN). </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Workflow"> Workflow <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Workflow">#</a></h3><p>Workflows are seen as a sequence of executable software components that are interpreted as a configuration set for a workflow engine, which automatically invokes the sequence of software components. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment "> Business IT-Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment ">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment"> Business Cloud-IT Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Model"> Business Process Model <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Model">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)"> Executable Business Process (FHOSTER) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)">#</a></h3><p>Executable model of a flow of structured tasks required produce a specific service, derived from a BPM and enriched with all the information required to be executed by a BPM Engine. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)"> BPM Engine (FHoster) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)">#</a></h3><p>The BPM Engine is a server component (no GUI) with its own persistence, that can be used by software clients via an API. The BPM Engine must not be confused with the other components of a business process management suite, like the modeling environment or the end-user workspace client. </p><p>An example tool is the ATOS YourBPM server component. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-\\"> \\ <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-\\">#</a></h3>Wilfrid Utz2015-03-27T12:18:02ZBPM 2.1Wilfrid Utzhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/330801/BPM?_36_version=2.12015-03-27T12:18:53Z2015-03-27T12:18:53Z<h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management"> Business Process Management <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management">#</a></h3><p>This page covers general terms around the area of Business Processes and Business Process Management. For terms specifically related to CloudSocket and Business Process as a Service <a href="">refer to this page</a>. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management+System+(BPMS)"> Business Process Management System (BPMS) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management+System+(BPMS)">#</a></h3><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process"> Business Process <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process">#</a></h3><p>Business Processes are seen as a sequence of manual, semi-automatic and automatic actions with the aim to achieve an organisational goal.<br><!----></br></p><p>The focus is to align all actions within an organisation with the business goals, independent if they are performed by machines, humans or a group consisting of several machines and / or several humans. Actions are typically described in time, role and place dependent, hence every "hand-over" of a task, or any "reminder" to again come back to a task is seen as the border of an activity. </p><p>There is a set of different application field for business processes such as but not limited to quality management, risk management, re-engineering, continues improvement, documentation, training but also model driven architecture and requirement analysis. The first set of application fields have clearly the model as "Information Value Provider" in mind, hence graphical models are not seen as some necessary step to move on to concrete sofware code, but are seen as an independent document type that is necessary to perform day to day work within the organisation. <br><!----></br></p><p>The second set of application fields is concerned with, the model driven architecture, software requirement analysis, configuration of software components or software design. In such application scenarios the so-called business and IT alignment must be performed by bridging form the domain centric business process towards the technology centric workflows. </p><h4 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+(ATOS)"> Business Process (ATOS) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+(ATOS)">#</a></h4><p>A business process is an activity or set of activities (manual or automated) designed to accomplish a specific organizational goal. These activities can be services that process need to call in order to execute different automatic steps of the whole process. This business process is defined through different standards, as the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) or Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN). </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Workflow"> Workflow <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Workflow">#</a></h3><p>Workflows are seen as a sequence of executable software components that are interpreted as a configuration set for a workflow engine, which automatically invokes the sequence of software components. </p><p><span class="diff-html-added" id="added-diff-0" previous="first-diff" changeId="added-diff-0" next="last-diff">Bridging from business towards workflows hence means to bridge the semantic distance from domain knowledge to technical configuration. </span></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment "> Business IT-Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment ">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment"> Business Cloud-IT Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Model"> Business Process Model <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Model">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)"> Executable Business Process (FHOSTER) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)">#</a></h3><p>Executable model of a flow of structured tasks required produce a specific service, derived from a BPM and enriched with all the information required to be executed by a BPM Engine. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)"> BPM Engine (FHoster) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)">#</a></h3><p>The BPM Engine is a server component (no GUI) with its own persistence, that can be used by software clients via an API. The BPM Engine must not be confused with the other components of a business process management suite, like the modeling environment or the end-user workspace client. </p><p>An example tool is the ATOS YourBPM server component. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-\\"> \\ <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-\\">#</a></h3>Wilfrid Utz2015-03-27T12:18:53ZBPM 2.2Wilfrid Utzhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/330801/BPM?_36_version=2.22015-03-27T12:20:55Z2015-03-27T12:20:55Z<h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management"> Business Process Management <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management">#</a></h3><p>This page covers general terms around the area of Business Processes and Business Process Management. For terms specifically related to CloudSocket and Business Process as a Service <a href="">refer to this page</a>. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management+System+(BPMS)"> Business Process Management System (BPMS) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management+System+(BPMS)">#</a></h3><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process"> Business Process <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process">#</a></h3><p>Business Processes are seen as a sequence of manual, semi-automatic and automatic actions with the aim to achieve an organisational goal.<br><!----></br></p><p>The focus is to align all actions within an organisation with the business goals, independent if they are performed by machines, humans or a group consisting of several machines and / or several humans. Actions are typically described in time, role and place dependent, hence every "hand-over" of a task, or any "reminder" to again come back to a task is seen as the border of an activity. </p><p>There is a set of different application field for business processes such as but not limited to quality management, risk management, re-engineering, continues improvement, documentation, training but also model driven architecture and requirement analysis. The first set of application fields have clearly the model as "Information Value Provider" in mind, hence graphical models are not seen as some necessary step to move on to concrete sofware code, but are seen as an independent document type that is necessary to perform day to day work within the organisation. <br><!----></br></p><p>The second set of application fields is concerned with, the model driven architecture, software requirement analysis, configuration of software components or software design. In such application scenarios the so-called business and IT alignment must be performed by bridging form the domain centric business process towards the technology centric workflows. </p><h4 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+(ATOS)"> Business Process (ATOS) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+(ATOS)">#</a></h4><p>A business process is an activity or set of activities (manual or automated) designed to accomplish a specific organizational goal. These activities can be services that process need to call in order to execute different automatic steps of the whole process. This business process is defined through different standards, as the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) or Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN). </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Workflow"> Workflow <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Workflow">#</a></h3><p>Workflows are seen as a sequence of executable software components that are interpreted as a configuration set for a workflow engine, which automatically invokes the sequence of software components. </p><p>Bridging from business towards workflows hence means to bridge the semantic distance from domain knowledge to technical configuration. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment "> Business IT-Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment ">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment"> Business Cloud-IT Alignment <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Model"> Business Process Model <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Model">#</a></h3><p><br><!----></br></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)"> Executable Business Process (FHOSTER) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)">#</a></h3><p>Executable model of a flow of structured tasks required produce a specific service, derived from a BPM and enriched with all the information required to be executed by a BPM Engine. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)"> BPM Engine (FHoster) <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)">#</a></h3><p>The BPM Engine is a server component (no GUI) with its own persistence, that can be used by software clients via an API. The BPM Engine must not be confused with the other components of a business process management suite, like the modeling environment or the end-user workspace client. </p><p>An example tool is the ATOS YourBPM server component. </p><h3 id="section-BPM-\\"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="first-diff" changeId="removed-diff-0" next="last-diff"> </span><span class="diff-html-removed" id="removed-diff-0" previous="first-diff" changeId="removed-diff-0" next="last-diff">\\ </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-\\"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="first-diff" changeId="removed-diff-0" next="last-diff">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="first-diff" changeId="removed-diff-0" next="last-diff"><!----></span></h3>Wilfrid Utz2015-03-27T12:20:55ZBPM 2.3Wilfrid Utzhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/330801/BPM?_36_version=2.32015-04-28T10:28:51Z2015-04-28T10:28:51Z<h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="first-diff" changeId="removed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0"> </span><span class="diff-html-removed" id="removed-diff-0" previous="first-diff" changeId="removed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0">Business Process Management </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="first-diff" changeId="removed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="first-diff" changeId="removed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0"><!----></span></h3><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="first-diff" changeId="removed-diff-0" next="added-diff-0">This page covers general terms around the area of Business </span><h3 id="section-BPM-Buisness+Processes+and+Business+Process+Management"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="removed-diff-0" changeId="added-diff-0" next="changed-diff-0"> </span><span class="diff-html-added" id="added-diff-0" previous="removed-diff-0" changeId="added-diff-0" next="changed-diff-0">Buisness </span><span class="diff-html-changed" id="changed-diff-0" changes="<ul class='changelist'><li>Moved out of a <b>paragraph</b>.</li><li>Moved to a <b>heading (level 3)</b> with id <br/>section-BPM-Buisness+Processes+and+Business+Process+Man<br/>agement.</li></ul>" previous="added-diff-0" changeId="changed-diff-0" next="removed-diff-1">Processes and Business Process Management </span></h3><span class="diff-html-removed" id="removed-diff-1" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">. For terms specifically related to CloudSocket and Business Process as a Service </span><a href=""><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">refer to this page</span></a><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">. </span><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Management+System+(BPMS)"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"> Business Process Management System (BPMS) </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Management+System+(BPMS)"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"><!----></span></h3><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"> Business Process </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"><!----></span></h3><p><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">Business Processes are seen as a sequence of manual, semi-automatic and automatic actions with the aim to achieve an organisational goal.</span><br><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"><!----></span></br></p><p><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">The focus is to align all actions within an organisation with the business goals, independent if they are performed by machines, humans or a group consisting of several machines and / or several humans. Actions are typically described in time, role and place dependent, hence every "hand-over" of a task, or any "reminder" to again come back to a task is seen as the border of an activity. </span></p><p><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">There is a set of different application field for business processes such as but not limited to quality management, risk management, re-engineering, continues improvement, documentation, training but also model driven architecture and requirement analysis. The first set of application fields have clearly the model as "Information Value Provider" in mind, hence graphical models are not seen as some necessary step to move on to concrete sofware code, but are seen as an independent document type that is necessary to perform day to day work within the organisation. </span><br><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"><!----></span></br></p><p><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">The second set of application fields is concerned with, the model driven architecture, software requirement analysis, configuration of software components or software design. In such application scenarios the so-called business and IT alignment must be performed by bridging form the domain centric business process towards the technology centric workflows. </span></p><h4 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+(ATOS)"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"> Business Process (ATOS) </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+(ATOS)"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"><!----></span></h4><p><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">A business process is an activity or set of activities (manual or automated) designed to accomplish a specific organizational goal. These activities can be services that process need to call in order to execute different automatic steps of the whole process. This business process is defined through different standards, as the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) or Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN). </span></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Workflow"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"> Workflow </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Workflow"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"><!----></span></h3><p><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">Workflows are seen as a sequence of executable software components that are interpreted as a configuration set for a workflow engine, which automatically invokes the sequence of software components. </span></p><p><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">Bridging from business towards workflows hence means to bridge the semantic distance from domain knowledge to technical configuration. </span></p><h3 id="section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment "><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"> Business IT-Alignment </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business IT-Alignment "><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"><!----></span></h3><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"> Business Cloud-IT Alignment </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Cloud-IT+Alignment"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"><!----></span></h3><h3 id="section-BPM-Business+Process+Model"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"> Business Process Model </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Business+Process+Model"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"><!----></span></h3><h3 id="section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"> Executable Business Process (FHOSTER) </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Executable+Business+Process+(FHOSTER)"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"><!----></span></h3><p><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">Executable model of a flow of structured tasks required produce a specific service, derived from a BPM and enriched with all the information required to be executed by a BPM Engine. </span></p><h3 id="section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"> BPM Engine (FHoster) </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-BPM+Engine+(FHoster)"><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1"><!----></span></h3><p><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">The BPM Engine is a server component (no GUI) with its own persistence, that can be used by software clients via an API. The BPM Engine must not be confused with the other components of a business process management suite, like the modeling environment or the end-user workspace client. </span></p><span class="diff-html-removed" previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="removed-diff-1" next="added-diff-1">An example tool is the ATOS YourBPM server component. </span><h3 id="section-BPM-Buisness+Processes+and+Business+Process+Management"><span class="diff-html-added" previous="removed-diff-1" changeId="added-diff-1" next="changed-diff-1"> </span><a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Buisness+Processes+and+Business+Process+Management"><span class="diff-html-added" id="added-diff-1" previous="removed-diff-1" changeId="added-diff-1" next="changed-diff-1">#</span></a><span class="diff-html-added" previous="removed-diff-1" changeId="added-diff-1" next="changed-diff-1"><!----></span></h3><ul><li><a href=""><span class="diff-html-added" previous="removed-diff-1" changeId="added-diff-1" next="changed-diff-1">Terminology (Objects)</span></a><span class="diff-html-added" previous="removed-diff-1" changeId="added-diff-1" next="changed-diff-1"><!----></span></li><li><span class="diff-html-added" previous="removed-diff-1" changeId="added-diff-1" next="changed-diff-1">Users and roles (Subjects)</span></li><li><span class="diff-html-added" previous="removed-diff-1" changeId="added-diff-1" next="changed-diff-1">Technology (Models)</span></li><li><span class="diff-html-added" previous="removed-diff-1" changeId="added-diff-1" next="changed-diff-1">Tools</span><span class="diff-html-changed" id="changed-diff-1" changes="<ul class='changelist'><li>Moved out of a <b>paragraph</b>.</li><li>Moved to an <b>unordered list</b>.</li><li>Moved to a <b>list item</b>.</li></ul>" previous="added-diff-1" changeId="changed-diff-1" next="last-diff"><!----></span></li></ul>Wilfrid Utz2015-04-28T10:28:51ZBPM 2.4Wilfrid Utzhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/330801/BPM?_36_version=2.42015-04-28T11:35:40Z2015-04-28T11:35:40Z<h3 id="section-BPM-Buisness+Processes+and+Business+Process+Management"> Buisness Processes and Business Process Management <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Buisness+Processes+and+Business+Process+Management">#</a></h3><ul><li><a href="">Terminology (Objects)</a></li><li>Users and roles (Subjects)</li><li><a href=""><span class="diff-html-changed" id="changed-diff-0" changes="Moved to a <b>link</b> with destination ." previous="first-diff" changeId="changed-diff-0" next="changed-diff-1">Technology (Models)</span></a></li><li><a href=""><span class="diff-html-changed" id="changed-diff-1" changes="Moved to a <b>link</b> with destination ." previous="changed-diff-0" changeId="changed-diff-1" next="last-diff">Tools</span></a></li></ul>Wilfrid Utz2015-04-28T11:35:40ZBPM 2.5Wilfrid Utzhttps://site.cloudsocket.eu/web/guest/common-understanding-wiki/-/wiki/330801/BPM?_36_version=2.52015-04-28T11:51:54Z2015-04-28T11:51:54Z<h3 id="section-BPM-Buisness+Processes+and+Business+Process+Management"> Buisness Processes and Business Process Management <a class="hashlink" href="#section-BPM-Buisness+Processes+and+Business+Process+Management">#</a></h3><ul><li><a href="">Terminology (Objects)</a></li><li><a href=""><span class="diff-html-changed" id="changed-diff-0" changes="Moved to a <b>link</b> with destination ." previous="first-diff" changeId="changed-diff-0" next="last-diff">Users and roles (Subjects)</span></a></li><li><a href="">Technology (Models)</a></li><li><a href="">Tools</a></li></ul>Wilfrid Utz2015-04-28T11:51:54Z