Business Process Technology : A Unified View on Business Processes Workflows and Enterprise Applications Currently we see a variety of tools and techniques for specifying and implementing business processes. The problem is that there are still gaps and tensions between the different disciplines needed to improve business process execution and improvement in enterprises. Business process modeling workflow execution and application programming are examples of disciplines that are hosted by different communities and that emerged separately from each other. In particular concepts have not yet been fully elaborated at the system analysis level. Therefore practitioners are faced again and again with similar questions in concrete business process projects: Which decomposition mechanism to use How to find the correct granularity for business process activities Which implementing technology is the optimal one in a given situation This work offers an approach to the systematization of the field. The methodology used is explicitly not a comparative analysis of existing tools and techniques although a review of existing tools is an essential basis for the considerations in the book. Rather the book tries to provide a landscape of rationales and concepts in business processes with a discussion of alternatives. TOC:Business Process Technology. Business Process Platforms. Component Based Development. Case Studies. Business Process Excellence. Business Process Reengineering. Business Process Optimization. Business Process Management. Information Technology as Mission critical Asset. Sematics. Decomposing Business Processes. Structured Programming. Human Computer Interaction. Form Oriented Architecture. References. Index.