BPMO Tutorial

BPMO Tutorial Defining a Private Business Process in a Knowledge Base By Dieter E. Jenz, President, Jenz & Partner GmbH First Edition September, 2003 - Draft Jenz & Partner GmbH Hainstr. 40a 63526 Erlensee Germany Phone : ++49-(0)6183-9100-0 Email: info@jenzundpartner.de Internet: http://www.jenzundpartner.deJenz & Partner was founded in 1985. Dieter E. Jenz serves as the company's president. The company provides a range of industry analyst, business and technical consulting, and educational services. It is widely known for its contributions to distributed applications, object-oriented development, and relational database technology. For additional information, Jenz & Partners' Website URL is www.jenzundpartner.de. Jenz & Partner has developed a business process ontology, which can be made available to clients in the context of consulting engagements. Jenz & Partner provides training in ontology definition and in software development process optimization in general. This White Paper focuses on human-oriented business process (workflow) aspects, which primarily execute within the organization boundaries, and are thus usually referred to as private business processes. It leaves so-called public business processes aside, which support the collaboration of business partners across enterprise boundaries. The Protégé-2000 ontology and knowledge base editor has been used for the definition of the Jenz & Partner ...