Author: Petia Wohed

Business Process Reengineering, Business Process Management, Workflow Management Systems and Process Aware Information Systems are a few concepts circulating around during the last decade and denoting a special kind of information systems or activities relevant for their development and utilization. These concepts address the intersection of the Information Systems and Business Management areas. As in…

In December 2007 we established a contact with Tibco, Sweden. On 3rd of December, we had a meeting with:Mark Rattley – Vice President UKI, Nordics & MEA Region,Jan Hygstedt – Country Manager Nordics, andMårten Nilsson – Solution Architect; all representatives from Tibco. From DSV Prof. Paul Johannesson, Birger Anderson, Michael Persson and myself attended the…

The work on patterns-based evaluation of three major open source workflow management systems was finalized in December 2007. The evaluated systems are: jBPM OpenWFE Enhydra Shark All three systems are written in Java. Paul Harmon outlines them, in his…

Last week of November 2007, I visited Nick Russell and Prof. Wil van der Aalst at Technical University of Eindhoven (TUE), in The Netherlands.During my visit we worked on summarising the results from our work on patterns-based evaluation of open source systems and presenting them in a paper, which we submitted to the…

During the period 20th-26th of September 2007, Nick Russell from TUE visited us at DSV. Nick wrote his PhD thesis within the Business Process Management group (BPM) at the Faculty of Information Technology at the Queensland University…

Last week A/Prof Arthur ter Hofstede from QUT visited us at DSV. Arthur is co-leader of the Business Process Management group (BPM) at the Faculty of Information Technology at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. Together with Prof.…

Today 23 May 2007, I am flying back to Stockholm after a four weeks trip to Brisbane, Australia and an informal visit to the BPM group at QUT. During my stay in Brisbane I cooperated with A/Prof. Arthur ter Hofstede and Nick Russell on a deep analysis of OpenWFE, which is one of the mainstream…

Today Paul, Jelena and myself submitted a project proposal to the Swedish Research Council. Title: A Universal Repository of Process ModelsAbstract: The rapid development of Internet during the last decade hassupported enterprises in building novel infrastructures, setting upvirtual organisations, and operating in larger geographical spaces.To manage this new environment, enterprises need to align their ITinfrastructures…