Business Process Management: Concepts, Languages, Architectures, 4th Edition

Endorsements from the current edition:

“BPM remains extremely relevant and this book provides an excellent introduction to the core concepts. This makes it a superb textbook for students (and practitioners) in both computer science and business administration.” (from the Foreword by Wil van der Aalst, RWTH Aachen, Germany)

Endorsements from the former editions:

“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)

“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)

In this book, Mathias Weske details the complete business process lifecycle from process modeling to process enactment and process evaluation. After starting with the general foundations and abstractions in business process management, he introduces process modeling languages and process choreographies, as well as formal properties of processes and data. Eventually, he presents both traditional and advanced business process management architectures, covering, for example, workflow management systems, service-oriented architectures, and data-driven approaches.
The 4th edition of his book contains significant updates, including a new section on directly follows graphs that play a crucial role in process mining. In addition, the core of declarative process modeling is introduced. The increasingly important role of data in business processes is addressed by a new section on data objects and data models in the data and decision chapter. To cover a recent trend in process automation, the enterprise systems architecture chapter now includes a section on robotic process automation.

Mathias Weske argues that all communities involved need to have a common understanding of the different aspects of business process management. Hence his textbook is ideally suited for classes on business process management, information systems architecture, and workflow management alike. The accompanying website http://www.bpm-book.com contains further information and additional teaching material.