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The relevance of business processes as a major asset of an
enterprise is more and more accepted: Business processes prescribe
the way in which the resources of an enterprise are used, i.e., they
describe how an enterprise will achieve its business goals.
Organizations typically prescribe how business processes have to be
performed, and they seek information technology that supports these
processes. We describe a system that supports the two fundamental
aspects of business process management, namely the modeling of
processes and their execution. The meta-model of our system deals
with models of business processes as weighted, colored, directed
graphs of activities; execution is performed by navigation through
the graphs according to a well-defined set of rules. The
architecture consists of a distributed system with a client/server
structure, and stores its data in an object-oriented database
system.
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