Software systems and BPM

Read the paper: W.M.P. van der Aalst, A.H.M. ter Hofstede, M. Weske, Business process manage-ment: A survey, in: Proceedings of BPM 2003, LNCS 2678, Springer-Verlag, 2003. link

The following figure is taken from this paper.

a) Assign the following software systems to the appropriate layer as depicted above. Is a clear assignment always possible? What is the relation of these software systems to business processes?

• UNIX
• SAP R3
• Excel
• Database Management Systems
• Workflow Management Systems
• Virus Scanner
• CORBA-Broker

b) Give examples for the statement that the layers depicted above are moving to the outside while absorbing new functionality. Is there also a movement to the inside?

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