Manfred Reichert was invited keynote speaker at the 19th Int'l Working Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS'18) and the 23rd Int'l Working Conference on Evaluation and Modelling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development (EMMSAD’18). Both events were held in conjunction with the CAiSE‘2018 conference in Tallinn, Estonia at June 2018.

In his keynote Manfred provided profound insights into current DBIS research works on data- and object-centric approaches to flexible business process management. Besides fundamental concepts of the PHILharmonicFlows technology, which is under development by DBIS researchers at Ulm University, the keynote presentation emphasized the huge potential of data-centric approaches to the digitization of knowledge-intensive processes. Furthermore, it discussed open challenges and research questions. With PHILharmonicFlows, DBIS is currently developing a next generation process management technology, which will enable engineers to implement data-centric processes by orders of magnitudes faster than with traditional approaches, while at the same time allowing for a highly flexible process automation and enactment.

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Manfred Reichert: Data-centric Approaches to Business Process Management: Fundamental Concepts, Tool Support, Open Challenges, Joint keynote of the BPMDS’18 and EMMSAD’18 conferences, Tallinn, Estonia, 11 June 2018

Abstract

The increasing importance of data in the automation of business processes has led to the emergence of data-centric process support paradigms, e.g., artifact-centric, object-aware, and data-driven approaches. By focusing on data instead of activities, respective approaches differ significantly from the widely used activity-centric paradigm, aiming at the support of data-intensive processes as well as an increased process flexibility. In particular, the progress of a data-centric process depends on the availability of data rather than on the completion of activities. Moreover, the focus has shifted away from large, monolithic processes towards the use of rather small processes (e.g., object lifecyces), which need to interact and collaborate in order to reach a common business goal. The objective of this keynote presentation is to provide profound insights into the fundamental concepts and features of data-centric approaches as well as their maturity. Moreover, it will discuss some of the open challenges that need to be tackled when applying data-centric approaches in the large scale and along the entire process lifecycle.