Comparison between Collaborative Business Process tools

Collaborative Business Processes (CBP) are more and more prevalent to be used to describe collaboration requirements among enterprises; at the same time humans and service-based applications are closely related with collaborative business processes. To solve the above two problems, BPMN is proposed and promoted by many IT vendors. This paper compares six CBP tools based on BPMN. The comparison is tackled based on the framework proposed in this paper. After the comparison, this paper concludes that the existent CBP tools can only deploy and execute CBP centrally; the mechanism for the distributed deployment and execution of CBP will be a hot research point because it will improve the autonomy of organizations participating in CBP. The current CBP tools also escape from semantic heterogeneity in interoperability problems among enterprises, which generates another research direction of CBP.