This paper describes the foundations of smart business process management and serves as an editorial to the corresponding special issue. To this end, we introduce a framework that distinguishes three levels of business process management: multi process management, process model management, and process instance management. For each of these levels we identify major contributions of prior researc...

The development of cloud services is rapidly transforming IT outsourcing. Highly standardized services are offered in elastic ways. Pricing models are shifting away from up front investments, allowing pay per use. In business process outsourcing (BPO), these business models are still less common and BPO services are often still implemented on a per customer basis, often heavily based on custome...

Business Process Management (BPM) includes methods, techniques, and tools to support the design, enactment, management, and analysis of operational business processes. This special issue presents papers, which contribute to the state of the art of BPM, and should be considered as a spin-off of the successful 2005 edition of International Conference on Business Process Management. In this guest ...

Business process management and business rules management both focus on controlling business activities in organizations. Although both management principles have the same focus, they approach manageability and controllability from different perspectives. As more organizations deploy business process management and business rules management, this paper argues that these often separated efforts ...

Business Process Management (BPM) has evolved into a core competence of today’s enterprises business development. But the design and the execution of business processes are still crucial tasks. Business Rules provide a mean to overcome some of these difficulties. Therefore this paper presents two different types of business rules: management rules and functional rules. While management rules su...

d: m.a. of business management. university of isfahan . [email protected] e: isfahan university of medical sciences , [email protected] knowledge as one of the greatest factors in creating value and competitive advantage, has led organizations to show great tendency toward programs of knowledge management. understanding the relationship between infrastructural capabilities and process c...

With the development of technologies such as Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), a business-process centric approach to design of information systems has emerged. This approach calls for the modeling and analysis of the business process— both to document it as well as to analyze its risk characteristics – specifically, the risk of errors in the data produced by the process. This focus o...