Implementing CEMIS Workflows with State Chart XML

Abstract

Contemporary CEMIS do not cope with requirements from the sustainability discussion. At the time of reporting environmental performance, it is too late to set the right course. Without an early identification of cause and effect to anticipate environmental impacts of decisions for timely intervention, potentials for acting precautious remain unemployed. A resource-friendly design of processes and their controlling demands for sustainability oriented organizational structures. The methodical view is also often neglected. Innovative solutions are in demand that foster the seamless integration of external environmental data together with in-house process, product and organizational data into environmental performance calculations in order to gain a decision base for strategic environmental management. Moreover, the huge variety of individually needed applications or adaptions of applications to an organizations individual needs demands for a means to plug together rather small functionalities to a tailor made system in a flexible manner. In this paper, we introduce the workflow centric approach within the IT-for-Green project (http://www.it-for-green.eu) and give an overview of the used techniques.