Multi-faceted BPM

We claim that business process models per se are not enough for representing the complexity of real world software applications that implements them; therefore other design dimensions must be taken into account in the analysis, design, and implementation of applications.
The gap between process modeling and application development can be alleviated by increasing the degree of automation in the design, implementation and maintenance of applications derived from process models.
We propose an integrated design approach to BPM that comprises modeling of business processes, application structure, master data, and user interaction, together with automatic model transformations among them. In this way, it is possible to work at different levels of abstraction and get quick prototypes to be discussed with the customers, but also generate production applications to be delivered as finalized systems. Indeed, the models allow the designers and analysts to work on orthogonal aspects of the design, and to fine tune the final application in several ways, e.g., by integrating the visual identity of the organization, plugging in new components, or connecting the business process to legacy applications via Web Services.