In several case studies we learned that many of the limitations of existing Process Management Systems (PrMS) can be traced back to the unsatisfactory integration of processes and data. In particular, we investigated the inherent relationships between processes and data in order to overcome fundamental limitations known from activity-centred PrMS.
In this talk, we present the PHILharmonicFlows project which targets at a comprehensive framework providing integrated access to processes, data, and functions to its users. We motivate our research goal, define related research questions and introduce the research methodology we applied. Following this, we present the fundamental characteristics of object-aware processes and discuss existing approaches along them. Then, we give an overview about the developed framework. In particular, processes and data can be defined in separate, but well integrated models establishing the principle of separating concerns. A well defined formal semantics enables the automated generation of most end-user components at run-time. In addition to a process-oriented view (i.e., worklists), PHILharmonicFlows provides generic implementations of data-oriented views (i.e., overview tables) and form-based activities. Altogether, our PHILharmonicFlows framework will enable a new generation of object- and process-aware information systems.