From business transactions to business process work flows: Using DEMO and BPMN

From business transactions to business process work flows: Using DEMO and BPMN

Van der Horst, P.

Hidders, A.J.H. (mentor)
Van Santbrink, J. (mentor)

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Software Technology

Web Information Systems

2010-11-15

For many years Capgemini has been using the Integrated Architecture Framework (IAF) as guide for the formation of an enterprise architecture. The Integrated Architecture Framework (IAF) constitutes four abstraction levels: the contextual, the conceptual, the logical and the physical abstraction level. When forming an enterprise architecture, one often starts with the highest abstraction level, containing the least detail, and handles each abstraction level in succession. With each abstraction level more and more detail is added, until the enterprise architecture has been fully shaped. Enterprise architects of Capgemini have observed that in the subsidy market most competing organizations offer solutions that cover only one or maybe two abstraction levels of the IAF, mostly the third and fourth level, but there are no organizations offering end-to-end solutions, i.e. solutions which handle the three lower abstraction levels of the IAF in succession, known by these enterprise architects. A solution which covers these three abstraction levels of the IAF would give Capgemini a unique selling point. Within Capgemini it is believed that DEMO can provide a comprehensive and easy means to represent the interpretation of the second abstraction level of the IAF, i.e. the conceptual abstraction level. For the representation of the third abstraction level of the IAF, the logical abstraction level, the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a well proven and often used standard at Capgemini. A a result they would like to know if DEMO can be transformed to BPMN, with the goal to incorporate DEMO and this transformation in the end-to-end solution Capgemini would like to offer. This master thesis researches and proposes a transformation between the Design & Engineering Methodology for Organizations and the Business Process Modeling Notation within the context of the Integrated Architecture Framework of Capgemini.

Business processes

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2010-11-22

Student theses

master thesis

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