A Web-Based Modelling Tool for Object-Centric Business Processes

Abstract

Business processes have the potential to enhance efficiency, flexibility, productivity and revenue by, for example, automating. They can automate routine procedures thereby reducing costs of a process. In recent years, a plethora of frameworks have been developed that facilitate the modelling of activity-centric business processes. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of frameworks that concentrate on object-centric or data-driven business processes. Furthermore, the majority of commercially available business process tools provide local applications and only a limited number leveraging the benefits of a web-based environment. This demonstration paper presents the implementation of a web-based modelling environment that implements the object-centric business process management approach: PHILharmonicFlows. The implementation is a redesigned and enhanced web-based edition of the original, locally developed prototype. Moreover, the web-based framework incorporates additional features, including sophisticated verification algorithms, measurement metrics for the monitoring component, a more user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI), and functions that enable the modelling of a business process in greater detail than the original prototype, by setting constraints.