Automating Workflows with Service Oriented Media Applications

This paper describes the infrastructure we have built for the automation of several typical workflows in a professional media production environment. We fully adopted the service oriented architecture and business process management vision in which stand-alone services provide modular functionality, service invocations are being orchestrated by a process engine and human interaction is possible in the business process through human tasks. The architecture was designed, the infrastructure was built, services were implemented, and several workflows were automated.