Flexible Workflows

B Jennings and A. Finkelstein
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B Jennings: University College London
A. Finkelstein: University College London

Chapter 12 in Service Chain Management, 2008, pp 171-185 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The concept of effectiveworkflows is deeply ingrained in virtually every industry today. As businesses become more distributed, there is a need formassively networked workflow tools which is reflected in the emergence of the Service-Oriented Architecture paradigm. This large collection of standards brings into workflow the concept of linking together disparateWeb Services to form composite applications with some integration of human processes. Most implementations of workflow tools, however, require complete adoption at multiple levels of an organisation as well as agreement in standards to enable inter-service communication in heterogeneous environments. This necessitates significant investment in software management solutions, development time and hardware requirements, all of which can lead to inflexible workflow solutions.

Keywords: Business Process; Service Orient Architecture; Simple Object Access Protocol; Architectural Style; Exception Handling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75504-3_12

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