Essential Business Process Modeling - Brossura

Havey, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0596008430 ISBN 13: 9780596008437

Casa editrice: O'Reilly Media, 2005

Riassunto

Ten years ago, groupware bundled with email and calendar applications helped track the flow of work from person to person within an organization. Workflow in today's enterprise means more monitoring and orchestrating massive systems. A new technology called Business Process Management, or BPM, helps software architects and developers design, code, run, administer, and monitor complex network-based business processes

BPM replaces those sketchy flowchart diagrams that business analysts draw on whiteboards with a precise model that uses standard graphical and XML representations, and an architecture that allows it converse with other services, systems, and users.

Sound complicated? It is. But it's downright frustrating when you have to search the Web for every little piece of information vital to the process. Essential Business Process Modeling gathers all the concepts, design, architecture, and standard specifications of BPM into one concise book, and offers hands-on examples that illustrate BPM's approach to process notation, execution, administration and monitoring.

Author Mike Havey demonstrates standard ways to code rigorous processes that are centerpieces of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), which defines how networks interact so that one can perform a service for the other. His book also shows how BPM complements enterprise application integration (EAI), a method for moving from older applications to new ones, and Enterprise Service BUS for integrating different web services, messaging, and XML technologies into a single network. BPM, he says, is to this collection of services what a conductor is to musicians in an orchestra: it coordinates their actions in the performance of a larger composition.

Essential Business Process Modeling teaches you how to develop examples of process-oriented applications using free tools that can be run on an average PC or laptop. You'll also learn about BPM design patterns and best practices, as well as some underlying theory. The best way to monitor processes within an enterprise is with BPM, and the best way to navigate BPM is with this valuable book.

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L'autore

Michael Harvey is an architect of several major BPM applications and author of magazine articles on BPM and process-oriented applications. In addition to being interested in the foundational concepts of BPM, Michael has spent much of his career working for companies that sell BPM product solutions (BEA with Weblogic Integration and IBM with Websphere Business Integration).

Contenuti

Preface; Audience; Assumptions This Book Makes; Contents of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari Enabled; We'd Like to Hear from You; Acknowledgments; Part I: Concepts; Chapter One: Introduction to Business Process Modeling; 1.1 The Benefits of BPM; 1.2 BPM Acid Test: The Process-Oriented Application; 1.3 The Morass of BPM; 1.4 Workflow; 1.5 Roadmap; 1.6 Summary; 1.7 References; Chapter Two: Prescription for a Good BPM Architecture; 2.1 Designing a Solution; 2.2 Components of the Design; 2.3 Standards; 2.4 Summary; 2.5 Reference; Chapter Three: The Scenic Tour of Process Theory; 3.1 Family Tree; 3.2 The Pi-Calculus; 3.3 Petri Nets; 3.4 State Machines and Activity Diagrams; 3.5 Summary; 3.6 References; Chapter Four: Process Design Patterns; 4.1 Design Patterns and the GoF; 4.2 Process Patterns and the P4; 4.3 Yet Another Workflow Language (YAWL); 4.4 Additional Patterns; 4.5 Process Coding Standards; 4.6 Summary; 4.7 References; Part II: Standards; Chapter Five: Business Process Execution Language (BPEL); 5.1 Anatomy of a Process; 5.2 BPEL Example; 5.3 BPEL in a Nutshell; 5.4 BPELJ; 5.5 BPEL and Patterns; 5.6 Summary; 5.7 References; Chapter Six: BPMI Standards: BPMN and BPML; 6.1 BPMN; 6.2 BPML; 6.3 Summary; 6.4 Reference; Chapter Seven: The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC); 7.1 The Reference Model; 7.2 XPDL; 7.3 WAPI; 7.4 WfXML; 7.5 Summary; 7.6 References; Chapter Eight: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): Choreography; 8.1 About the W3C; 8.2 Choreography and Orchestration; 8.3 WS-CDL; 8.4 WSCI; 8.5 WSCL; 8.6 Summary; 8.7 References; Chapter Nine: Other BPM Models; 9.1 OMG: Model-Driven BPM; 9.2 ebXML BPSS: Collaboration; 9.3 Microsoft XLANG: BPEL Forerunner; 9.4 IBM WSFL: BPEL Forerunner; 9.5 BPEL, XLANG, and WSFL; 9.6 Summary; 9.7 References; Part III: Examples; Chapter Ten: Example: Human Workflow in Insurance Claims Processing; 10.1 Oracle BPEL Process Manager; 10.2 Setting Up the Environment; 10.3 Developing the Example; 10.4 Testing the Example; 10.5 Summary; 10.6 References; Chapter Eleven: Example: Enterprise Message Broker; 11.1 What Is a Message Broker?; 11.2 Example: Employee Benefits Message Broker; 11.3 Summary; Key BPM Acronymns; Colophon;

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: O'Reilly Media
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0596008430
• ISBN 13: 9780596008437
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 350