What is BPM?

Business Process Management (BPM) is the approach to manage the execution of IT-supported business operations from a business experts view rather than from a technical perspective. However
Martin Hepp, Frank Leymann, John Domingue, Alexander Wahler, Dieter Fensel Proc. IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering 2005

What is BPM?

The degree of mechanization in BPM is still very limited, creating inertia in the necessary evolution and dynamics of business processes, and BPM does not provide a truly unified view on the process space of an organization.

What is Semantic BPM?

[One can] trace back the problem of mechanization of BPM to an ontological one, i.e. the lack of machine-accessible semantics, and argue that the modelling constructs of Semantic Web services frameworks, especially WSMO, are a natural fit to creating such a representation. As a consequence, we propose to combine SWS and BPM and create one consolidated technology, which we call Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM).

Three Key Challenges - 1

How can SWS technology be used within BPM?

Three Key Challenges - 1

How can SWS technology be used within BPM?

Low-hanging fruit - results of DIP project on WSMO implementation applied in BPEL extension, BPEL4SWS

Three Key Challenges - 2

How to use semantics to enrich business process models and formalise a link between abstract, businessexpert viewpoint and IT-level ?

Three Key Challenges - 2

How to use semantics to enrich business process models and formalise a link between abstract, businessexpert viewpoint and IT-level ?

Question addressed by the SUPER project

Three Key Challenges 3

Also: Main gap between practice & research

How to take advantage of Web 2.0 technologies to make results available in lightweight manner directly to business expert?

Three Key Challenges 3

Also: Main gap between practice & research

How to take advantage of Web 2.0 technologies to make results available in lightweight manner directly to business expert?

Question posed by the SOA4All project

Keynote 2010

Business

Experts Mash Up The Enterprise:

Rapid reconfiguration supported by Semantic BPM