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Workflow management versus case handling: results from a controlled software experiment

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Symposium on Applied Computing archive
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing table of contents

Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

SESSION: Coordination models, languages and applications table of contents

Pages 82-89

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-59593-753-7

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Bela Mutschler	Daimler AG Group Research, Ulm, Germany
Barbara Weber	University of Innsbruck, Austria
Manfred Reichert	University of Twente, The Netherlands

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SIGAPP: ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Business Process Management (BPM) technology has become an important instrument for improving process performance. When considering its use, however, enterprises typically have to rely on vendor promises or qualitative reports. What is still missing and what is also demanded by IT decision makers are quantitative evaluations based on empirical and experimental research. This paper picks up this demand and illustrates how experimental research can be applied in the BPM field. The conducted experiment compares efforts for implementing a sample business process either based on standard workflow technology or on a case handling system. We motivate and describe the experiment design, discuss threats for the validity of experiment results (as well as risk mitigations), and present experiment results. In general, more experimental research is needed in order to obtain more valid data on the various aspects and effects of BPM technology and tools.

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