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A set of one or more linked procedures or activities which collectively realize a business objective or policy goal, normally within the context of an organizational structure defining functional roles and relationships.
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A business process is typically associated with operational objectives and business relationships, for example an Insurance Claims Process, or Engineering.
Development Process. A process may be wholly contained within a single organizational unit or may span several different organizations, such as in a customer-supplier relationship.
A business process has defined conditions triggering its initiation in each new instance (e.g., the arrival of a claim) and defined outputs at its completion.
A business process may involve formal or relatively informal interactions between participants; its duration may also vary widely.
A business process may consist of automated activities, capable of workflow...
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Palmer, N. (2016). Workflow Model. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_818-2
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