The goal of BPM
is to make explicit the process management in the IS architecture. Process logic is,
today, hidden in the application level and, often, the way with which this is made is
in the mind of the IT experts of the company, and it is not well documented. The IS
obtained is difficult to maintain. A change to the process logic needs a revision to the
business logic, and this requires a lot of time and incurs high costs. The processes
are not explicit and thus it is very difficult to monitor and manage them.
There are a lot of BPM suites on the market that try to make explicit the definition
and management of the processes. A recent study (Miers, Harmon, & Hall 2005)
compares different BPM suites (http://www.Fuego.com; http://www.ilog.com;
http://www.popkin.com; http://www.w4global.com; http://www.filenet.com) from
different points of view such as cost, platform, user interface, and so forth. These
BPM suites allow us to represent processes and to manage their execution; and they
provide administration tools that allow us to manage processes and users involved
in the system.
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