Multidimensional Business Process Analysis with the Process Warehouse

A data warehouse is a global information repository, which stores facts originating from multiple, heterogeneous data sources in materialised views. Up to now, a data warehouse has always been used for application data and never for control data. As efficiency, accuracy, transparency and flexibility of enterprise’s business processes have become fundamental for process reengineering programmes, paying attention to monitoring and controlling of workflow execution at an formal and strategic level will become a focus of information management in the near future.

[1]  Christos Nikolaou,et al.  Aurora: An Architecture for Dynamic and Adaptive Work Sessions in Open Environments , 1998, DEXA.

[2]  Gerhard Weikum,et al.  Workflow history management in virtual enterprises using a light-weight workflow management system , 1999, Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises. RIDE-VE'99.

[3]  W. H. Inmon,et al.  Building the data warehouse , 1992 .

[4]  Vidette Poe.  Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support , 1995 .

[5]  R. Kaplan,et al.  The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action , 1996 .

[6]  A Min Tjoa,et al.  The Process Warehouse: A Data Warehouse Approach for Business Process Management , 2000 .

[7]  Thomas H. Davenport,et al.  Book review:Working knowledge: How organizations manage what they know. Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak. Harvard Business School Press, 1998. $29.95US. ISBN 0‐87584‐655‐6 , 1998 .

[8]  C. Mohan.  Recent Trends in Workflow Management Products, Standards and Research , 1998 .

[9]  C. Mohan.  State of the art in workflow management research and products , 1996, SIGMOD '96.

[10]  Steve Rozen,et al.  LabFlow-1: A Database Benchmark for High-Throughput Workflow Management , 1996, EDBT.

[11]  Christos Nikolaou,et al.  Management of work sessions in dynamic open environments , 1998, Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130).

[12]  Asuman Dogac,et al.  Workflow history management , 1998, SGMD.

[13]  Ivar Jacobson,et al.  The object advantage - business process reengineering with object technology , 1994 .

[14]  Frank Leymann,et al.  Production Workflow: Concepts and Techniques , 1999 .

[15]  Thomas H. Davenport,et al.  Process Innovation: Reengineering Work Through Information Technology , 1992 .

[16]  Ralph Kimball,et al.  The Data Warehouse Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Building Dimensional Data Warehouses , 1996 .

[17]  Gustavo Alonso,et al.  Functionality and Limitations of Current Workflow Management Systems , 1997, unpublished.

[18]  Michael Rosemann,et al.  Workflow-based process monitoring and controlling-technical and organizational issues , 2000, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.