Manfred Reichert war eingeladener Keynotesprecher der 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K). Die IC3K sollte ursprünglich vom 2. – 4. November 2020 in Budapest stattfinden, wurde aufgrund der Pandemiesituation nun aber als Online-Konferenz organisiert.

In seinem Keynote-Vortrag gab Prof. Reichert facettenreiche Einblicke in die am DBIS entwickelten Prozess-Management-Technologien. Dabei ging er insbesondere auf den Übergang von traditionellen (d.h. aktivitätszentrierten) Prozess-Management-Systemen hin zu datengetriebenen und -zentrierten Ansätzen ein. Deren Vor- und Nachteile wurden ebenso diskutiert, wie die sich bietenden Perspektiven für anspruchsvolle Anwendungsbereiche wie Logistik, Gesundheitswesen und Maschinenbau.

Manfred Reichert:
From Activity- to Data-centric Approaches to Business Process Management: Challenges, Technologies, Applications
Eingeladener Keynote-Vortrag auf der IC3K 2020 Konferenz, Budapest, 2. November 2020

Zusammenfassung (in engl.)

The utmost importance of data for knowledge-intensive business processes has led to the emergence of data-centric process management approaches. By tightly integrating process and data, which more or less constitute two sides of the same coin, these approaches differ significantly from the widely used activity-centric process paradigm, aiming at the support of semi- or unstructured processes and offering by far the highest flexibility. The progress of a data-centric process depends on the availability of data rather than on the completion of black-box activities. Moreover, the focus has shifted from large, monolithic processes towards small data-driven processes (e.g., object lifecylces), which are running concurrently, but need to interact with each other to reach a given business goal. The keynote speech will give insights into the evolution from activity- to data-centric business process management (BPM) approaches with a focus on process flexibility issues. Moreover, it will deal with fundamental concepts, features and enabling technologies of data-centric approaches to BPM. Finally, it will discuss how data-driven and data-centric process management approaches open up new avenues with respect to the engineering, automation, and monitoring of large-scale business processes in the era of digitization and Industry 4.0.