Abstract:

An enterprise usually evolves through mergers and acquisitions. Its bottom-up nature leads to operational process issues, such as heterogeneity,redundancy, and inconsistency. All these problems definitely hinder companies from achieving global strategy.To solve these problems,we propose a heterogeneous business process consolidation strategy based on business patterns,in which a business process is modeled as a composed business pattern.Each business pattern can be further configured to meet specific subsidiary’s requirements.To leverage the approach to real situations,here we propose a realization approach of the business pattern strategy based on jBPM5,in which business rules are introduced to configure business patterns and work as a control facility to drive the activities in patterns.We also report a case study of the proposed approach in the course of the business process consolidation in China Mobile Communication Corporation(CMCC),and the experimental results validate the effectiveness of our approach.

Key words: business process;business pattern;process configuration;execution engine;jBPM5;Drools