A DISTRIBUTED, HETEROGENEOUS BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT PROCESS ENGINE FOR THE INTERNET OF EVERYTHING

• Main Authors: Schroiff, Klaus, Boulay, Denis
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 22.08.2018
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

The present invention relates to a heterogeneous business process management, BPM, system (300) for a distributed execution of BPM workflows, comprising a master process engine (410) configured to operate in a first operating environment; and at least one slave process engine (420), configured to operate in a second operating environment different from the first operating environment, wherein each slave process engine (420) is associated with a corresponding profile (550) comprising at least one restriction associated with the slave process engine (420). The master process engine (410) is configured to manage a processing environment for a plurality of BPM workflows, to retrieve the profile (550) associated with the at least one slave process engine (420) and, on execution of a first BPM workflow (500), to send at least one processing request to the at least one slave process engine (420) in accordance with the at least one restriction comprised in the retrieved profile (550). The at least one slave process engine (420) is configured, in response to the at least one processing request, to execute at least a part of the first BPM workflow (500) in the second operating environment. The invention further relates to a method for operating a heterogeneous BPM system (300) and a method for reporting status data of a heterogeneous BPM system (300)