A Model-Driven Approach to Align Business Processes with User Interfaces

: Information Technology (IT) has evolved over time from its traditional use as administrative support towards a more strategic role to enforce business processes (BP). But several organizations that adopt BP modeling as a source to implement enterprise systems struggle to maintain such a link. To solve this problem, most researches are focused on software engineering to specify the association between models from business and IT to support propagating changes. But even though there are several techniques to control the alignment of BP and their systems, there lacks a solution that addresses a major aspect of systems: their User Interfaces (UI). The negative impact of focusing only on functional aspects is that many changes on business processes that affect user interfaces are not carefully considered. Our solution proposes a method for the alignment of business processes with user interfaces of systems by adopting a model-driven approach. Such support is targeted at large organization...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: JUCS
• Authors: Kênia Soares Sousa, Hildeberto Mendonça, Jean Vanderdonckt
• Keywords: Business, JUCS 2008, Systems, User Interfaces