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The configuration of comprehensive enterprise systems to meet the specific requirements of an organisation up to today is consuming significant resources. The results of failing or delayed enterprise system implementation projects are severe and may even threaten the organisation’s existence. One of the main drivers for implementing comprehensive enterprise systems is to streamline business processes. However, an intuitive conceptual support for business process configuration is insufficiently addressed by enterprise system vendors and inadequately researched in academia. This paper presents a model-driven approach to target this problem and proposes several configuration patterns that describe generic patterns of configuration alternatives, in order to understand what situations can occur during business process configuration. Based on these configuration patterns, a configuration notation is introduced that allows for visually highlighting configuration alternatives. Finally, we will sketch how configurable Event Driven Process Chains and the configuration of business processes can be supported using relational databases.
The research results presented in this paper have been funded by SAP Research and Queensland University of Technology with the project “Modelling Configurable Business Processes”. SAP is a trademark of SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany.
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Dreiling, A., Rosemann, M., van der Aalst, W.M.P., Sadiq, W., Khan, S. (2005). Model-Driven Process Configuration of Enterprise Systems. In: Ferstl, O.K., Sinz, E.J., Eckert, S., Isselhorst, T. (eds) Wirtschaftsinformatik 2005. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7908-1624-8_36
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