DBIS and its software lab presented two new tool demos at the 8th Int’l Conference on Business Process Management (BPM'10) – BPM’10 took place in Hoboken, New Jersey, which is close to New York City, in September 2010. The BPM conference series is the most distinguished forum for researchers and practitioners in business process management.

Demo 1:
ADEPT goes Mobile: Supporting Mobile Processes in Complex Environments
by Rüdiger Pryss, Julian Tiedeken and Manfred Reichert

Pervasive computing and process management are frequently addressed topics in information systems research. On the one hand, daily business activities (e.g., customer services or medical care) are often executed in a mobile manner. On the other hand, IT process support for them usually stops at workstation level. Consequently, information gathered by mobile workers or users have to be entered with delay, which entails problems like falsification, loss of information, delayed access, and lack of control. By integrating mobile devices into the business processes, a new quality in human-centric process support becomes possible. For this purpose we developed the MARPLE architecture - a light-weight process engine which is able to run process fragments on mobile devices. In the BPM’10 demo selected features of this mobile process engine were demonstrated.

For further details visit the MARPLE project homepage.

Demo 2:
Enabling Process Support for Advanced Applications with the AristaFlow BPM Suite
by Andreas Lanz, Ulrich Kreher, Manfred Reichert and Peter Dadam

A process-aware information system (PAIS) will be not accepted by end users if its software clients do not support their native workflows or are too complex for them. When implementing business processes based on process management technology important issues are, therefore, how end-users can participate in the execution of the processes and how this can be accomplished as intuitively as possible. This becomes extremely important if high flexibility demands need to be fulfilled during process execution, while PAIS robustness and error safety need to be assured. In our BPM’10 software demonstration we showed how the AristaFlow BPM Suite - an adaptive process management system developed by us – was applied by ourselves as well as by partners to challenging applications in domains like healthcare, logistics, disaster management, and software development. The implementation of adaptive software clients in these different applications particularly proves the benefits provided by an open application programming interface (API) as offered by AristaFlow.

For further details on the AristaFlow BPM Suite visit the AristaFlow Forum.

Demonstration of AristaFlow and its applications

ADEPT goes mobile – Demonstration of our mobile process engine

DBIS members at Hoboken Campus looking at Manhattan