Business Process Management – BPM

Course Coordinator: Vassilis Gerogiannis,      ECTS: 7.5,      Semester: B (D)

Syllabus

Introduction to Business Process Management, Process Identification, Process Modeling, Petri Nets, UML (Unified Modeling Language Business Process Modelling Profile), BPMN (Business Process Modelling Notation), Process Discovery Methods, Qualitative and Quantitative Process Analysis, Process Reengineering, Process Automation, Process Intelligence, Process Performance Analysis, Service-Oriented Business Process Architectures, Business Process Orchestration and Choreography, Business Process Execution with BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), Practice in the ORACLE BPM environment.

Recommended Bibliography

  • Dumas, M., La Rosa & M., Mendling, J., Reijers, H.A. Fundamentals of Business Process Management, Springer, London, 2013.
  • Weske, M. Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures, Springer (2nd edition), New York, 2012
  • Jeston, J. & Nelis, J. Business Process Management, Second Edition: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations, Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston, 2008.
  • Fiammante, M. Dynamic SOA and BPM: Best Practices for Business Process Management and SOA Agility, IBM Press, New York, 2009.
  • Damelio, R. The Basics of Process Mapping, 2nd Edition, Productivity Press, Boca Raton, 2011.
  • Page, S. The Power of Business Process Improvement: 10 Simple Steps to Increase Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Adaptability, AMACOM, Atlanta, 2010.
  • McDonald, M. Improving Business Processes, Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, 2010.
  • Linden, M., Felder, C. and Chamoni P., Dimensions of Business Process Intelligence, Springer, 2011.
  • Cummings, F. Enterprise Integration: An Architecture for Enterprise Application and Systems Integration, John Wiley & Sons, Toronto, 2002.

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