Modeling Business Processes for SOA | Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL

Process Execution and Control

According to ancient wisdom,'if you can't measure it, you can't manage it'. This is particularly true for business processes. Measuring different aspects of a business process, such as activity duration, resource utilization, total execution time, average execution time, and so on, is crucial to understanding how the processes performs in the real-world. We can only understand the process if we have numbers, and we can get numbers from measuring the process execution.

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Measuring process execution is a valuable source of information, which is used to understand and control process execution, and to identify possibilities for process optimization.

SOA provides sophisticated support for process execution and control. Process execution relates to the supervision of several hundred or even thousand process instances, which can be active for anything from a few seconds up to several days or even weeks. In the latter case we are talking about long-running processes...

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Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL

Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL

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