Designing Generic Business Processes Based on SOA: An Approach and a Use Case

In an enterprise, it is quite common to find related business functions not only in the same domain but also across other domains. However, often these business functions are implemented in isolation primarily because they were developed independent of one another and in the absence of process centric approach towards implementation. In the recent years, developments in business process modeling [3][4] and support for executable syntax for business process models coupled with architectural paradigms like Service oriented architecture (SOA) [1] have made it easier to design and implement reusable process for generic business functions. Many approaches[7][8] have been proposed for identifying and designing common business processes but are limited to designing the Business process model and do not examine the challenges in propagating the same principles on to the implementation. Here, we propose an approach which covers the design & implementation to ensure reuse & flexibility while maintaining the other benefits of cost of ownership.