Towards Webscale Business Processes
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This document discusses the limitations of traditional process modeling approaches based on flows and proposes a shift towards constraint-based processes. Constraint-based processes address challenges like scalability, flexibility, and ownership that arise from flows. They capture individual stakeholder constraints that can then be used to infer variable processes. This allows for stepless shifting between workflow, case management, and straight-through processing based on constraint levels. Constraint-based processes also enable modularity, embedded compliance, and new business models.
Towards Webscale Business Processes
- 1. Towards Webscale Business Processes Jeroen van Grondelle
- 2. From Hierarchies to Networks
- 3. Flow doesn’t Scale! Contextuality and up front consolidation lead to combinatoric explosion
- 4. Flow requires Up Front Consolida<on 0 1000 2000 5 10 15 Number of Potential Coalitions at Execution Time
- 5. Flow encodes Contextuality 0 500 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Number of Process Configurations at Execution Time Contextuality follows from multiple target groups, actors, products or product variants, change over time, etc.
- 6. When does it break? Or did it already? High Numbers of Process variants? BIG spreadsheets? Consistency? Maintenance cost?
- 7. A Paradigm Shi, towards Constraint-‐based Processes
- 8. Declara<ve Processes Now in Be Informed! Conven<onal BPM captures… Constraint Oriented Processes capture…
- 9. Implicitly captures Alterna<ve Routes
- 11. Inferring Flow
- 12. Automated Consolida<on = ???
- 14. Seman<c Technology Case ActivityRole <Abstract> Artifact Time Limit Object Assigns Creates Performs Decision Decides Post Condition Requires Running Requires Expired Pre Condition Requires Role Requires Available Requires Taken Requires Available Requires Completed Document Appointment Note Begins Ends Suspends Resumes Creates Changes Corrects Deletes Lookup Subtypes
- 15. Addressing the Challenges of Webscale Business Processes
- 16. Constraint Level Flexibility Freedom Intui<ve property of constraint based processes: High flexibility follows from low numbers of constraints (In Flow: ‘Adding’ flexibility requires extra flow, such as excep<on flows, etc.)
- 17. Stepless Shicing between BPM Approaches Adaptive Case Management (ACM) Workflow Management (WFM) Straight Through Processing (STP) Expert Flexibility in 20% Cases Dealing with Impediments Locally Providing Support and Consistency in 80% Cases Variable Levels of Guidance + Flow at Runtime - -ActorAutonomyatRuntime+ ‘Variable’ flexibility across business process phases Support in 80% AND Freedom in 20% cases
- 18. Ownership Consolidated flow design has no natural owner, as it represents no one’s ‘real stake’ In constraint-‐based approach, each stakeholders constraints can be captured explicitly
- 19. New Business Models Modularity of reusable constraint sets Including cross cugng aspects
- 20. Embedded Compliance Regulators are ‘just’ another stakeholder Processes inferred from constraints are inherently compliant
- 22. Download the whitepaper at www.beinformed.com Questions? Ideas? Suggestions? Jeroen van Grondelle j.vangrondelle@beinformed.com