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One of the reasons why the companies keep out the business process adaptation, is focused on the complexity to adequate their databases to a Business Process Management. It implies to determine the relation between the activities of the process, and the data objects stored in the database. Our proposal allows the business expert to know the state of the data objects according to the business process, facilitating the migration.
In this paper, we propose a methodology and a set of mechanisms to support the data adaption, from a legacy database to an activity-centric business process. This methodology lets the description of the data object states, and their equivalences with the relational database by means of an Object-Relational Mapping and a Domain Specific Language.
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Gómez-López, M.T., Borrego, D., Gasca, R.M. (2014). Data State Description for the Migration to Activity-Centric Business Process Model Maintaining Legacy Databases. In: Abramowicz, W., Kokkinaki, A. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 176. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06695-0_8
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