A web-based Modelling Tool for object-centric Business Processes

Ulm University

Presentation at BI-Week 2024; Lisa Arnold, Wien, Austria, 10 September 2024

Business processes have the potential to enhance efficiency, flexibility, productivity and revenue by, for example, automating. They can automate routine procedures thereby reducing costs of a process. In recent years, a plethora of frameworks have been developed that facilitate the modelling of activity-centric business processes. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of frameworks that concentrate on object-centric or data-driven business processes. Furthermore, the majority of commercially available business process tools provide local applications and only a limited number leveraging the benefits of a web-based environment. This demonstration paper presents the implementation of a web-based modelling environment that implements the object-centric business process management approach: PHILharmonicFlows. The implementation is a redesigned and enhanced web-based edition of the original, locally developed prototype. Moreover, the web-based framework incorporates additional features, including sophisticated verification algorithms, measurement metrics for the monitoring component, a more user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI), and functions that enable the modelling of a business process in greater detail than the original prototype, by setting constraints.