Lectures and labs are given in englisch! Exam is also in english!

Objectives: The lecture enables the student to deal with state of the art technologies for modeling, building and operating automated business processes to  support agile business processes.  By designing and implementing a complete BPM projects the students learn and practice all stages of the business process automation life cycle with an professional BPM suite (SAG webMethods).

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge on web service base technologies, XML basics

Labs are based on the Campus Connect case study by Software AG a SOA project (including all aspects from analysis, process modeling, process implementation, etc.) and let you get in touch with state of the art BPM and business process execution software.

Content:

•  XML technologies for business process automation (XML Schema,  XPath)
• Advanced web service technologies (WS-Security, WS-Reliability, WS-Transactions)
• The business process life cycle
• Modeling business process (Business Process Modeling Notation)
• Transforming the business process model into an automated workflow (BPMN à BPEL: automation and constraints)
• Business process automation with BPEL
• Service Orientied Architectures (concept, pattern, implementation)
• Building business process components using the Service Component Architecture
• Business process automation and human interaction (BPEL4People)
• Business Process Automation Platforms
• Enterprise Service Bus Systems as integration platforms