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A Data Warehouse for Workflow Logs

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Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems (EDCIS 2002)

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Workflow Logs provide a very valuable source of information about the actual execution of business processes in organizations. We propose to use data warehouse technology to exploit this information resources for organizational developments, monitoring and process improvements. We introduce a general data warehouse design for workflow warehouses and discuss the results from an industrial case study showing the validity of this approach.

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  1. Department of Informatics-Systems, University of Klagenfurt, A-9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Johann Eder, Georg E. Olivotto & Wolfgang Gruber

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  1. Institute of Computing Technique, P.O. Box 2704, 100080, Beijing, China

    Yanbo Han

  2. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, 10598, NY, Yorktown Heights, USA

    Stefan Tai

  3. FH Brandenburg, University of Applied Sciences, Magdeburger Str. 50, 14770, Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany

    Dietmar Wikarski

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Eder, J., Olivotto, G.E., Gruber, W. (2002). A Data Warehouse for Workflow Logs. In: Han, Y., Tai, S., Wikarski, D. (eds) Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems. EDCIS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2480. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45785-2_1

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