| Developing process-oriented enterprise systems not
only asks for Business Process Management (BPM) but also for
an appropriate user interface and data model. Current BPM
and workflow technologies are neither integrated with user
dialogs nor offer an appropriate data model. This paper
describes a novel integrated framework for modeling processoriented
systems called Processes with User Interfaces and
Data Modeling Integration (PUDI), which offers a solution to
these shortcomings. For the projects described in this paper,
we used the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) for
the processes, extensions to BPMN for submit/response-style
user interaction, which is characteristic of form-based
applications ranging from small Web applications to large
ERP systems, and the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for
the data model which defines both, the information and the
message model. The paper discusses related work and
describes real-world application scenarios which motivated our
research on the proposed framework and illustrates its
practical benefits. |