BP-Ex: a uniform query engine for business process execution traces

Many enterprises nowadays use business processes, based on the BPEL standard, to achieve their goals. Analyzing the execution of such processes is critical for enforcing business policies and meeting efficiency and reliability goals. The BP-Ex system presented in this demo is an important component of BP-Suite, a novel tools suite based on the BPEL standard, which offers a uniform, query-based, user-friendly interface for BP analysis. BP-suite allows to gracefully combine the analysis of process specifications, monitoring of run time behavior, and posteriorly querying of execution traces (logs), for a comprehensive process management. BP-Ex is the BP-Suite query engine for process execution traces. The goal of this demo is to highlight the particular challenges that had to be addressed to support the suite’s uniform, intuitive query interface, over (possibly very large) execution traces, and to demonstrate the novel optimization techniques that had to be developed for that.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: EDBT
• Authors: Eran Balan, Tova Milo, Tal Sterenzy
• Keywords: BPEL Standard, Database, EDBT 2010, Execution Traces, Process Execution Traces