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Software systems mainly considered from enterprises for dealing with a business process automation belong to the following two categories: Workflow Management Systems (WfMS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. The wider diffusion of ERP systems tends to favourite this solution, but there are several limitations of most ERP systems for automating business processes. This paper reports an empirical study aiming at comparing the ability of implementing business processes of ERP systems and WfMSs. Two different case studies have been considered in the empirical study. It evaluates and analyses the correctness and completeness of the process models implemented by using ERP and WfM systems.
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Aversano, L., Tortorella, M. (2010). Using ERP and WfM Systems for Implementing Business Processes: An Empirical Study. In: Kim, Th., Kim, HK., Khan, M.K., Kiumi, A., Fang, Wc., Ślęzak, D. (eds) Advances in Software Engineering. ASEA 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 117. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17578-7_7
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