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Workflow Management and Database Technology

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Book cover Database Support for Workflow Management

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These days, organizations rely on information as a valuable asset. Modern economists consider information as the fourth production factor next to materials, money, and personnel. Information technology has accordingly become more important in dealing with ever growing quantities of information. Traditionally, developments in information technology have focused on support for storage and basic manipulation of data. Consequently, database systems have become the cornerstone for information processing in most modern organizations. Database systems allow well-structured data management, guaranteeing availability and quality of data. More recently, it has become clear that data processing in complex organizations does not only require attention to data management, but also attention to the business processes that create and modify the data. Well-structured process management has become an ingredient to modern information management as essential as data management. Consequently, workflow management systems have entered the arena of business computing as the cornerstone for business process or workflow management. To enable integrated data and process management, the challenge is to integrate database and workflow management technology so that workflow management systems can easily access business data on the one hand and data management functionality can be used as the basis for workflow management on the other hand.

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  1. Paul Grefen
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Twente, Netherlands

    Paul Grefen , Jochem Vonk  & Erik Boertjes ,  & 

  2. Politecnico di Milano, Italy

    Barbara Pernici

  3. Sema Group sae, Spain

    Gabriel Sánchez

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Grefen, P., Apers, P. (1999). Workflow Management and Database Technology. In: Grefen, P., Pernici, B., Sánchez, G., Vonk, J., Boertjes, E. (eds) Database Support for Workflow Management. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 491. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5171-3_1

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