Profitability analysis of workflow management systems

2009 IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing, CEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 233-238

  Gruber, Horst ^a   Huemer, Christian ^b  

^a Raiffeisen Informatik GmbH   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Business process management; Cost benefit calculation; Profitability analysis; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; COST BENEFIT CALCULATION; HIGH COSTS; IT COMPANIES; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE; PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENTS; WORKFLOW TECHNOLOGY;

BENCHMARKING; COMMERCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; PROFITABILITY; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 70449453487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2009.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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