Embodying Business Rules in S-BPM

The subject-oriented approach to model and execute business processes can be conceptually and easily combined with the business rules approach. Business rules are a mean to enhance the agility of workflows, as it should make the knowledge and decisions of an organization more explicit. As with the process model, ordinary users should be able to create, change and maintain the sets of rules in an idealized scenario. We demonstrate a real case for the beneficial use of business rules in the case of process automation and show a practical integration with an S-BPM reference implementation. Based on experiences in the field, we also point out that there is still serious lack of knowledge about actual trends and technologies in the context of the digital transformation of a business. The contribution is intended for practitioners with some interest in IT support for business process management.