Dynamic business process management

Abstract

Open e-PRIOR is an open source e-Procurement system developed by the European Commission. Currently Open e-PRIOR system is handling simple choreographies based on the exchange of a single main object. However, these different objects are related and part of larger business process and by handling the objects separately the full overview is lost. Business process management (BPM) helps organizations to understand and maintain complicated business workflow. This master thesis focuses on how BPM can provide a way to monitor the full business process and provide information to the stakeholders using the e-Prior system. The first part of the thesis explores the business context and relevant capabilities of the open e-PRIOR system. Secondly candidate BPM tools are compared against the modeling needs to select the most suitable one. Thereafter, Logical view of open e-PRIOR is re-designed and a new logical model of the open e-PRIOR system is proposed by implementing business process management system. Finally, a business process management task is designed and implemented by a business process management tool.