Towards method- and tool-independent business process modeling

Abstract

The last decades have brought significant developments in the field of Business Process Management (BPM). Practice and science have developed and established new approaches such as Process Mining and Robotic Process Automation. However, within these developments, new techniques, tools, formats, and models are constantly being designed that work well in their specific focus but are usually not interoperable with other applications. The diversity of the market thus also brings disadvantages. This is where we start with our research; we conceptualize and develop an architecture that builds a bridge between Process-Aware Information Systems and BPM tools using Design Science Research methodology. With this approach, we want to make a contribution towards method- and tool-independent modeling.