Business Compliance Governance in Service-Oriented Architectures

Abstract — Governing business compliance with regulations, laws, best practices, contracts, and the like is not an easy task, and so far there are only limited software products available that help a company to express compliance rules and to analyze its compliance state. We argue that today’s SOA-based way of implementing and conducting business (e.g., using Web services and business process engines) lends itself very well to the development of a comprehensive compliance government solution that effectively aids companies in being compliant. In this paper, we contextualize the compliance problem in SOA-based businesses, we highlight which are the most salient research challenges that need to be addressed, and we describe our approach to compliance governance, spanning design, execution, and evaluation concerns. Keywords — Compliance, Compliance governance, SOA, Business process management, Business process fragments, View-based modeling

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: AINA
• Authors: Florian Daniel, Fabio Casati, Vincenzo D'Andrea, Emmanuel Mulo, Uwe Zdun, Schahram Dustdar, Steve Strauch, David Schumm, Frank Leymann, Samir Sebahi, Fabien De Marchi, Mohand-Said Hacid
• Keywords: AINA 2009, Business Compliance, Business Process, Compliance Governance, Computer Networks