Supporting Telecom Business Processes by Means of Workflow Management and Federated Databases

Wim Nijenhuis; Willem Jonker; Paul Grefen

Supporting Telecom Business Processes by Means of Workflow Management and Federated Databases

Wim Nijenhuis, Willem Jonker, Paul Grefen

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This report addresses the issues related to the use of workflow management systems and federated databases to support business processes that operate on large and heterogeneous collections of autonomous information systems. We discuss how they can enhance the overall IT-architecture. Starting from the OSCA architecture, we develop an architecture that includes workflow management systems and federated databases. In this architecture, the notion of information systems as a monolithic entity disappears. Instead, business processes are supported directly by workflows that combine presentation blocks, function blocks, and data blocks. We address the specific issues of transaction management and change management in such an architecture.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	AMCIS 1997 Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication	3rd AIS Americas Conference on Information Systems
Place of Publication	Atlanta, GA
Publisher	AIS
Pages	464-466
Publication status	Published - 30 Jan 1997
Event	3rd Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 1997 - Indianapolis, United States Duration: 15 Aug 1997 → 17 Aug 1997 Conference number: 3

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Conference	3rd Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 1997
Abbreviated title	AMCIS
Country/Territory	United States
City	Indianapolis
Period	15/08/97 → 17/08/97

Keywords

DB-WFM: WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT
DB-DFDB: DISTRIBUTED OR FEDERATED DATABASES

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Nijenhuis, W, Jonker, W & Grefen, P 1997, Supporting Telecom Business Processes by Means of Workflow Management and Federated Databases. in AMCIS 1997 Proceedings: 3rd AIS Americas Conference on Information Systems. AIS, Atlanta, GA, pp. 464-466, 3rd Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 1997, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 15/08/97. <https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis1997/256>

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