Scenario-Based Method for Business Process Analysis and Improvement in SOA

Business Process Management is often associated with software to manage, control, and support operational processes. And in order to meet dynamic and new business needs with flexible information technology solutions, more and more enterprises intend to build their own IT infrastructure under Service Oriented Architecture. Currently analyzing and refining the existing business process models for configuring enterprise information system is a hot area of research. In our approach, we apply the process mining technology to the event logs to discover the scenarios, each of which mainly consists of task originators, sub-process (ordering of service invocations) and business objects. Based on composition of these scenarios, the enterprise is able to redesign the process models and combine closely the business process with the services provided by different application systems in SOA. When new business requirements emerge, solution designers can devise a flexibly composite process that makes the best use of existing scenarios and glue the scenarios together with least augmentation or modification.