Systems and/or methods for end-to-end business process management, business event management, and/or business activity monitoring

US8171492B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SOFTWARE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Steve McGuire · Leesburg, US
• Thomas Glaser · Rochester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 31, 2009
• Grant date: May 1, 2012
• Expiry date: Nov 28, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/0637
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The example embodiments disclosed herein relate to application integration techniques built around the publish-and-subscribe model (or one of its variants). In certain example embodiments, application integration techniques for managing and/or monitoring a business process comprising a plurality of activities, events, and/or objects located in at least one resource external to the application integration system and a process engine thereof are provided. During design time, by introspecting the business object types involved in the activities, events, and/or objects of the at least one resource, potential state changes may be identified, and an integrative linkage may be established, with the integrative linkage being managed and maintained by a process monitoring agent (PMA). During runtime, the PMA may “listen” to the business object state changes in the at least one external resource and notify the local process engine accordingly.