Model-driven business process integration and management: A case study with the Bank SinoPac regional service platform

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 48, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 649-669

  Zhu, Jun ^a   Tian, Zhong ^a   Li, Thomas ^a   Sun, Wei ^a   Ye, Sheng ^a   Ding, Wei ^a   Wang, C C ^b   Wu, Gerland ^b   Weng, Leo ^b   Huang, Simon ^c   Liu, Bill ^c   Chou, Daniel ^c  

^a IBM CHINA RESEARCH LAB   (China)

^b Information Technology Division   (Taiwan)

^c Business Consulting Services   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BUSINESS PROCESS INTEGRATION AND MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; MODEL-DRIVEN TECHNOLOGIES;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 10644259727     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.485.0649     Document Type: Article

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