文档介绍：enterprise
integrity
By DAVID McGOVERAN
BPMS Concepts, Part 3
ast month, pared the tasks and characteristics of clas- Business processes and transactions often have externally imposed
sic workflow management and ideal Business Process timing constraints. Thus, the scheduling of business functions is a
LManagement Systems (BPMS). This month, we want to plex technical problem. A BPMS without a scheduler won’t
at ponents that make a BPMS functional. These fall into con- perform efficiently.
venient categories: • Audit manager — The ability to audit a business process is -
mon and often indispensable business requirement. The audit man-
• ponents ager tracks what was done, decided, when, by whom, and with what
• Business interfaces resources. Once defined, audit conditions should be applied consis-
• System management facilities tently to allow querying of audit trails and report generation.
• ponents. • Error manager — Although many errors can be anticipated and
business processes established to handle them, there’ll always be
This month, we’ll start with the ponents or kernel of unanticipated errors. You must manage these in a consistent,
the BPMS, which will help us understand the ponents to auditable fashion, even if the method is manual and ad hoc.
be discussed later. • Security and policy manager — This manager enables authoriza-
tion and policy ca