Integrated Exploration of Data-Intensive Business Processes [Extended Abstract]

This is an extended abstract of our article1 accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing Journal proposing an approach for the conceptual modeling and design-time analysis of the data operations performed by a business process on a database. Our approach leverages a uniform formal representation that captures a process model, a conceptual database schema, and the data operations performed by the process on the database. We then show how such a formal model can be queried to obtain insights into the informational perspective of business process models and, in turn, support process modelers and analysts in reasoning about process (re- ) design and improvement. The approach is evaluated with a controlled experiment and a proof-of-concept implementation.