Business Process Management Concepts, Languages, Architectures

"This book presents comprehensive and updated material for anyone interested in getting to know the vast field of BPM. With its excellent organization and use of many figures, it can also be an excellent choice as a text book on BPM." - Amit Sheth, LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA "An extremely well rounded and comprehensive discussion of the subject of business process management" - Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, San Jose, CA, USA "A superb textbook for students in both computer science and business administration. Moreover, it is also very useful for practitioners since it provides a comprehensive coverage of BPM independently of industry hypes around workflow management, business process management, and service-oriented architectures." - from the Foreword by Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands "Business process management (BPM) is a topic more pressing than ever even 15 years after its inception. Mathias Weske takes an up-to-date, fresh, and comprehensive look at the subject and connects a number of areas to which BPM applies, from a conceptual as well as a technical and an application-oriented point of view. A definitive must-read for anybody studying or working in this area." - Gottfried Vossen, European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Muenster