Published in association with the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) Edited by Layna Fischer
Quality hardcover. 384 pages.
US $95.00 Retail.
Size: 7" x 10"
ISBN 0-9703509-4-5
Quality laminated hardcover. Illustrations, charts, references, appendices, bibliography, index.
Published by: Future Strategies Inc., Lighthouse Point, FL, USA.
"The Workflow Management Coalition is the globally recognized body for the advancement of workflow management technology and its use in industry," Jon Pyke, WfMC Chair
Welcome to the Workflow Handbook 2003. This landmark 10th anniversary edition offers you three sections:
SECTION 1: The World of Workflow covers a wide spectrum of viewpoints and discussions by experts in their respective fields. Papers range from an uncomplicated definition of the technology, architecture styles, the importance of Web Services, adaptive workflow in a distributed environment, group applications, Business Activity Management to discussions on emerging technologies.
SECTION 2: Workflow Standards deals with the importance of standards, and includes discussions and examples on the importance and deployment of standards, specifically the new XPDL specification recently published by the Coalition’s Technical Committee. The specification is published in full on the Coalition website.
SECTION 3: Directory and Appendices provide an explanation of the structure of the Workflow Management Coalition, and include an authors’ appendix, WfMC officers and a membership directory.
Group Applications: From Workflow to Work Management
Martin Ader, Workflow & Groupware Strategies, France
Best Practices in Workflow
Connie Moore, Giga Information Group, United States
Web Services and Workflow– a Unified Approach
Heinz Lienhard, ivyTeam, Switzerland
The Continuity Between Design and Implementation
Nathalie Génieux and Dominique Montel, W4, France
Optimization of Workflow Performance through Business Process and Architecture Alignment: A Simulation Approach
Jon Weyland, CACI, United States
Business Processes and Business Rules: Business Agility Becomes Real Jean Faget, W4, France; Mike Marin, FileNET, United States; Patrick Mégard, ILOG, France; Vincent J. Owens, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, United Kingdom; Laurent-Olivier Tarin, ILOG, France
Formal Support for Adaptive Workflow Systems in a Distributed Environment
Yun-Heh Chen-Burger and Jussi Stader, AIAI, the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Web-extended Business Process Management
David Lakness,, eiStream Technologies, Inc., United States
Information Drives Change—Integrated Business Process Management and the Enterprise Dial Tone
Scott G. Opitz, webMethods, Inc., United States
Straight Through Processing: Part 1—A fiasco without Workflow?
Jeroen Stoffele and Fred van Leeuwen DCE Consultants, The Netherlands
Straight Through Processing and Workflow in Securities Trading: Part 2—What Can Workflow Add?
Fred van Leeuwen, and Jeroen Stoffele DCE Consultants, The Netherlands
The Intelligent Enterprise Infrastructure
Mike D. Gilger, Identitech, United States
Emerging Technologies—Where the Market is Headed
Jon Pyke, Staffware Plc, United Kingdom
SECTION 2—Workflow Standards
B2B Interoperability through Presentation Level Integration
Alan Rickayzen, SAP AG. Germany and Keith Swenson, Fujitsu Software Inc., United States
Managing the Compliance of Dynamic and Complex Processes
Paul W.H. Chung and Larry Y.C. Cheung, Loughborough University United Kingdom
XPDL and BPMN
Stephen A. White, SeeBeyond, United States
XPDL in Action
Arnaud Bezancon, ADVANTYS, France
Integrating Warehouse Process Flows in the Heterogeneous Environment
Jean-Pierre Dijcks, Oracle Corporation, United States
Getting Started with Workflow
Charles Plesums, CSC Financial Services, United States
The WfMC Glossary
Compiled by David C. Hollingsworth, Fujitsu, United Kingdom Chair, WfMC Technical Committee
SECTION 3—Directories and Appendices
WfMC Structure and Membership Information
Layna Fischer, General Manager, WfMC, United States
