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This textbook is ideally suited for classes on business process management, information systems architecture, and workflow management. It is also valuable for project managers and IT professionals working in business process management, since it provides a vendor-independent view on the topic. The accompanying website contains further information, such as links to references that are available online, exercises that offer the reader a deeper involvement with the topics addressed, and additional teaching material.

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This book presents comprehensive and updated material for anyone interested in getting to know the vast field of BPM. With its excellent organization and use of many figures, it can also be an excellent choice as a text book on BPM. - Amit Sheth, LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA An extremely well rounded and comprehensive discussion of the subject of business process management - Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, San Jose, CA, USA A superb textbook for students in both computer science and business administration. Moreover, it is also very useful for practitioners since it provides a comprehensive coverage of BPM independently of industry hypes around workflow management, business process management, and service-oriented architectures. - from the Foreword by Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Business process management (BPM) is a topic more pressing than ever even 15 years after its inception. Mathias Weske takes an up-to-date, fresh, and comprehensive look at the subject and connects a number of areas to which BPM applies, from a conceptual as well as a technical and an application-oriented point of view. A definitive must-read for anybody studying or working in this area. - Gottfried Vossen, European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Muenster

Aus den Rezensionen: ... Das Buch bietet einen sehr umfassenden und fundierten Uberblick uber die Konzepte, die Business Processs Management-Systemen zugrunde liegen, insbesondere die ModelIierung von Kontrollflussen und Choreographien. Fur Informatiker, die sich ernsthaft mit der Thematik auseinandersetzen wollen, sollte das Buch zur Pflichtlekture gehoren ... (http://kurze-prozesse.de/?p=106) Im Mittelpunkt stehen Konzepte, Strategien und die Zusammenhange zwischen diesen. Klar und prazise werden Geschaftsziele, Wertschopfung und Methoden der ProzessmodelIierung erlautert. Ebenfalls Eingang gefunden haben Prozesssprachen wie Workflow-Netze, Event-driven Process Chains und die Business Process Modeling Notation. Der vorgestellte Architekturansatz berucksichtigt ... Techniken wie SOAP, WSDL und BPEL und kann als herstellerneutral eingestuft werden. (in: IT Director, 2008, Issue 7-8, S. 40)

This book presents comprehensive and updated material for anyone interested in getting to know the vast field of BPM. With its excellent organization and use of many figures, it can also be an excellent choice as a text book on BPM. - Amit Sheth, LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA <br> An extremely well rounded and comprehensive discussion of the subject of business process management - Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, San Jose, CA, USA <br> A superb textbook for students in both computer science and business administration. Moreover, it is also very useful for practitioners since it provides a comprehensive coverage of BPM independently of industry hypes around workflow management, business process management, and service-oriented architectures. - from the Foreword by Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, <br>The Netherlands <br> Business process management (BPM) is a topic more pressing than ever even 15 years after its inception. Mathias Weske takes an up-to-date, fresh, and comprehensive look at the subject and connects a number of areas to which BPM applies, from a conceptual as well as a technical and an application-oriented point of view. A definitive must-read for anybody studying or working in this area. - <br>Gottfried Vossen, European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Muenster

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Mathias Weske is Professor of Software Systems Technology at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam, Germany, where he leads the business process technology research group. His current research interests include various topics in workflow management, web services technology, and enterprise application integration. He is a member of the GI, vice chair of the executive committee of GI SIG EMISA, and a member of IEEE and ACM.

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