Establishing conceptual and functional links between S-BPM and business rules

Abstract

Traditional business process management (BPM) and the business rules approach present two different concepts for achieving enterprise agility. Integrating business rules into business processes can leverage business performance in organizational environments which are decision intensive and process driven. The concept of subjectoriented business process modeling (S-BPM) presents a design paradigm quite similar to the business rules concept, both being based on naturally spoken language and both being quite easy to understand. The research presented here aims at establishing conceptual and functional links between S-BPM modeling environments and business rule repositories and presents a prototype for enacting business rules in S-BPM processes. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.