The paper studies economic aspects of cloud computing for business processes management. The expediency of such ap proach is caused by aspiration to lower operational costs, to reduce time of decision-making and to optimize expenses. Suchpurpose is reached due to wide use of service oriented...

Advanced Business Process Management (BPM) tools enable the decomposition of previously integrated and often ill-defined processes into re-usable process modules. These process modules can subsequently be distributed on the Internet over a variety of many different actors, each with their own...

A dynamic progress in development of ICT technologies based on B2B, as well as their application in order to improve business processes carried out between enterprises and their business partners, have gained much importance during recent years. It was influenced by such factors as developing...

Purpose: In most companies achieving or delivering quality product or service becomes a complex task especially when setting up a new production process; every time focusing on project completion, meeting deadlines and quality check at the end of the production. Two types of quality checks can...

With this research the importance of various quality practices is highlighted, while emphasising the fact that all have their fair share of advantages and disadvantages that must be weighed by any organisation seeking a structured strategy towards furthering their continuous improvement...

Business Process Management (BPM) is not a new concept as Social Networks and Social BPM that are starting to get as much attention as previous, both on academic contexts and in organizations. Social Networks are evolving and, although there is recognition of the importance that they have in...

Realistic requirements of mobile business applications often exceed the capabilities of their respective local environments. In order to overcome such restrictions of specific mobile devices, services, and resources, this contribution introduces the concept of context-based cooperation. It is...

BPM research has been of great importance in Germany since the early 1990s. In Russia, increased competition and new IT possibilities have only recently forced both companies and governmental institutions to start taking benefits from BPM. Against this background, the workshop PropelleR 2012...

Although SOA development and service identification are widely discussed among academics and practitioners alike, little is known about how they are performed in practice. Thus, this paper investigates how SOA development and service identification work in real-life projects. An explorative...

The paper addresses the business value discussion of IT focussing on Business Process Management (BPM), where BPM is understood as an integrated management concept with IT as a critical enabling technology. To answer the question if there could be any financial benefit effects due to...