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integrity
By DAVID McGOVERAN
BPMS Concepts, Part I
PMS (Business Process Management Systems) is a DBMS, an analogy that I have touched upon briefly in the
widely used, but poorly understood term, associated past. Although both DBMS and BPMS technologies may
Bwith a number of misconceptions. Having encountered require skilled professionals to design anization of
numerous very loose definitions (most implicit), I’ve decided information (data or process, respectively) and to administer
it is important to start a short series of columns that explain and maintain the technology, the user need not be technically
the BPMS concept in a little more detail. Of course, this is my inclined. Users need only understand the facilities for use, the
definition and so it will probably differ from that of other meanings of elements (of the process or of the database,
writers. Hopefully, you’ll find my arguments convincing as respectively), and relationships among elements in order to
you follow the column. gain tremendous value.
By a business process, we mean an interconnected set of Without a DBMS (and especially a relational DBMS),
business functions, constrained by various business rules in users need to know a great deal about the facilities that are
order to achieve a specific set of business goals pertaining to used to store, access, and maintain data. As suc