Many organizations migrate to service-oriented architecture (SOA) since it caters for the demanded flexibility and reusability in information systems. Besides delineating appropriate business services, a mechanism for coordinating these services is needed to support business processes. The current state-of-the-art falls short in realizing that goal since existing standards and software packages tend to neglect existing enterprise architectures. Moreover they assume a central position in the architecture from which they control all services according to prescriptive process models, which makes them rather useless in a realistic setting. Therefore we introduce four dimensions to classify workflow engines that reflect the degree of support for the presented requirements. Subsequently we combine these dimensions to describe a phased roll-out of a solution that fulfills the requirements. That solution is currently deployed at KBC Bank & Insurance Group. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Haesen, R., Goedertier, S., Van De Cappelle, K., Lemahieu, W., Snoeck, M., & Poelmans, S. (2008). A phased deployment of a workflow infrastructure in the enterprise architecture. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4928 LNCS, pp. 270–280). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78238-4_27
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