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In a business-to-business setting there is a growing need for organizations to be interoperable. Computer systems involved in automating parts of a business process need to become an integral part of the business process. Before automation is achieved, the part of the business process to be automated needs to be made explicit and then operationalized. Business process models could be used to make the process explicit. Domain standards could be used to make the process operational. However, there is no method available to evaluate the fit between business process requirements, a modeling technique and a standard. In this paper we argue that a set of business process concepts can be useful for the evaluation of the fit. We further propose a method how to perform the evaluation and we illustrate the use of the method. The construction of a complete set of business process concepts remains out of the scope of this paper.
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Rukanova, B.D., van Slooten, K., Stegwee, R.A. (2006). Business Process Requirements, Modeling Technique and Standard: how to Identify Interoperability Gaps on a Process Level. In: Konstantas, D., Bourrières, JP., Léonard, M., Boudjlida, N. (eds) Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-152-0_2
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