http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/21077 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:15:37 GMT 2026-07-21T13:15:37Z http://dl.gi.de:80/bitstream/id/af71f881-75d8-4643-9829-298a921d5d6c/ http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/21077 http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/17746 How to choose the right BPM tool: A maturity-centric decision framework with a case evaluation in the European market Hahn, Christopher; Winkler, Till J.; Friedrich, Fabian; Tamm, Gerrit; Petruch, Konstantin Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie; Weske, Mathias The enabling role of technology for effective business process management (BPM) is not being doubted. However, finding the right tool that suits a company's specific requirements is usually a challenging task. This paper presents a novel decision framework for the critical assessment of BPM tools which maps company requirements to different levels of BPM maturity and thus aims to be applicable in various organizational contexts. The framework includes emerging BPM features such as sophisticated process simulation capabilities and the support of common IT reference models and is complemented by a decision model which provides for complex preferences and uncertainty throughout the assessment process. We demonstrate the applicability of the proposed artefact by the case of a tool selection at a major telecommunications company and a survey-based analysis of 19 BPM tool vendors in the European market. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/17746 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/17747 Viewpoint-based modeling – Towards defining the viewpoint concept and implications for supporting modeling tools Fischer, Klaus; Panfilenko, Dima; Krumeich, Julian; Born, Marc; Desfray, Philippe Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie; Weske, Mathias Viewpoint-based modeling is an important recent development in software engineering. It is likely to boost the wider use of modeling techniques because it allows to tailor existing tools with respect to the different stakeholders in software design. The paper reports on results from the VIBAM project in which viewpoint concepts are investigated. We give an overview of the most important contributions from literature regarding viewpoint concepts from which we derived the position that we take in the VIBAM project. After presenting VIBAM's position we derive features that we consider important for tools that support viewpoint features. We plan to integrate these features in the commercial modeling tools MODELIO and MEDINI ANALYZE to the end of the VIBAM project. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/17747 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/17744 Collaborative business process modeling Forster, Simon; Pinggera, Jakob; Weber, Barbara Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie; Weske, Mathias Research on quality issues of business process models has recently begun to explore the process of creating process models. With growing complexity, the creation of business process models requires the presence of several, potentially spatially distributed, stakeholders. As a consequence, the question arises how this affects the process of process modeling. In this paper, we present an extension to Cheetah Ex- perimental Platform, specifically designed for investigating how process models are collaboratively created. Furthermore, we illustrate how various levels of interactions are supported by our modeling editor and outline its usage for analyzing the process of collaboratively creating process models. We believe that this extension is a first step toward understanding the process of process modeling in a collaborative setting which will ultimately help us to develop better process modeling environments. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/17744 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/17743 Optional activities in process flows Natschläger, Christine; Geist, Verena; Kossak, Felix; Freudenthaler, Bernhard Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie; Weske, Mathias A drawback of many business process modelling languages (BPMLs) is that modalities are implicitly expressed through the structure of the process flow. All activities are implicitly mandatory and whenever something should be optional, the process flow is split to offer the possibility to execute the activity or to do nothing. This implies that the decision whether to execute one or more activities is described within another element, such as a gateway. The separation of decision and execution requires additional modelling elements and a comprehensive understanding of the entire process to identify mandatory and optional activities. In this paper, we address the problem and present an approach to highlight optionality in BPMLs based on the Control-Flow Patterns. Furthermore, we study the semantics of explicitly optional activities and show how to apply the general approach to a concrete BPML like the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN). An explicitly optional activity is deemed to be more intuitive and also positively affects the structural complexity and the understandability of the process flow as shown by a graph transformation approach and a case study. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/17743 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z