Production Workflow: Concepts and Techniques

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Implemented properly, workflow products enable companies to reengineer and streamline business processes. In Production Workflow: Concepts and Techniques, two of IBM‘s leading workflow experts demonstrate structures of production workflow systems and solutions that deliver maximum availability, reliability, and scalability. This start–to–finish, vendor–independent guide brings together best practices from these areas.

Coverage includes:

• Fundamentals: types of workflows, and relationship with other technologies.
• Key elements of a workflow metamodel including its mathematical formalization.
• Architecture of production workflow systems.
• Relating workflows with transactions and objects.
• The role of standards: Workflow Management Coalition and OMG.
• Advanced workflow functions and application topologies.
• Process–based CASE techniques for development, testing, and maintenance.

The authors walk step–by–step through modeling workflows and building workflow–based applications. You‘ll also learn about the properties of these applications and how appropriate architectures of workflow systems ensure these properties.

Whatever your role in workflow and/or reengineering projects, Production Workflow: Concepts and Techniques delivers the specific information you need to achieve results.

DR. FRANK LEYMANN is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and the chief architect of IBM‘s production workflow management system, MQSeries Workflow. He has published extensively on the subject, speaks at conferences worldwide, and is respected throughout the field in both professional and academic circles.

DIETER ROLLER is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member working on the architecture and design of MQSeries Workflow. He has contributed to all facets of the development and enterprise–wide deployment of workflow–based applications and is deeply involved in customer projects from this area.