Implicit BPM: A business process platform for transparent workflow weaving

Abstract

The integration of business processes into existing applications involves considerable development efforts and costs for IT departments. This precludes the pervasive implementation of BPM in organizations where important applications remain isolated from the existing workflows. In this paper, we introduce a novel concept, Workflow Weaving, based on non-intrusive techniques, which achieves transparent integration of business processes into organizational applications. This concept relies on BPM standards, Aspect Oriented Programming, and Web patterns to transparently weave business models among current web applications. A prototype platform is presented, which includes our design of a distributed architecture, and a natural and expressive DSL. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.