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Business Process Reusability

by Dinh Khoa Nguyen last modified Apr 26, 2012 11:57
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Term:
Business Process Reusability
Domain: Cross-cutting issues
Engineering and Design
(KM-ED)
Adaptation and Monitoring
(KM-AM)
Quality Definition, Negotiation and Assurance
(KM-QA)
Generic
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Business Process Management
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Business process reusability is about the ability to develop reusable Process Fragments and use them multiple times within the same process or across multiple different processes. If a process fragment needs to be changed it is not required to go through all usages of that process fragment to apply the change. Writing process fragments that can be reused in different places is desired practice especially in case of complex and large business processes.

Reuse of business process has not be studied intensively in the area of BPM; nevertheless a few existing approaches can be classified in three main classes:
1. Reuse in business process modeling: business process modeling caters for design of processes for reuse and composing new processes from reused process fragments. Both aspects are to be addressed in a lifecycle model for process fragments.
2. Semantics in business reuse: to increase the level of reusability of business processes, their semantics must be generalized and made understandable in various usage Contexts.
3. Business process patterns: cater for reuse of proven process skeletons that can be customized and applied within various application domains.

[PO-JRA-2.1.1]
Service Composition and Coordination
(KM-SC)




Service Infrastructure
(KM-SI)




Generic
(domain independent)




 

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References

  • [PO-JRA-2.1.1] Survey on Business Process Management
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