1. Variable Process Models
Coming of Age
Hajo Reijers
VarIS, June 17, 2013

2. V a r i a b i l i t y

5. PAGE 5

6. Process Models in BPM
common
understanding
identify problems in
the business process
discover opportunities
for improvementexecute

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21. Success
Time
Concept convenience
Easiness to apply

22.  vBPMN performs better than C-YAWL:
• Time
• Success
• Easiness to apply
 Not so for :
• Concept convenience
Insights

23.  Streams emerging on evaluation of
techniques/tools for process model variability
Meta insight

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25. 400 municipalities
Spain: +/- 8.000
Germany: +/-12.000
USA: +/-20.000

26. Traditional situation
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Processes
Municipality 1
M1E1
IS1
Processes
Municipality 2
M2E2
IS2
Processes
Municipality n
MnEn
ISn
...
IS = Information System
E = Event log
M = Models

27. Using SaaS technology
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Processes
Municipality 1
C1
E
IS-SaaS
Processes
Municipality 2
C2
Processes
Municipality n
Cn
...
CM
IS-SaaS = Information System (using a SaaS-based BPMS)
E = Event log
CM = Configurable Models
Cx = Configuration x

30. Provop

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YAWL 4 FILM

32.  Real-world motivation for process model variability
Meta Insight

33. Variable Process Models
Coming of Age

34.  Information Systems Researchers
• should evaluate (or, rather, first learn how to do it)
• should look for impact