Towards Instant Monitoring of Business Process Compliance

Business process models are becoming the backbone of any enterprise system, the blue prints that drive business. However, there are many situations in today’s business when such processes have to be validated against compliance requirements. Albeit compliance and business experts are able to define and relate compliance requirements, constraints to tasks within business processes at design time (usually using an informal notation), compliance enforcement has to be done at enactment time. To do so, processes have to be monitored at execution time. We are introducing a compliance monitoring framework, that tackles the problem of business process compliance by addressing the common concepts from the two mentioned perspective. Moreover, we address the resource and data perspective as well as control flow perspective for monitoring. Enforcing compliance on business processes is strongly related to complex event processing as events are the way through which the state of a process enactment is perceived.