Process-Centric

The Process-Centric business pattern addresses business process-managed interactions (aka Business-to-Business, Business-to-User) and bulk processing (aka Business-to-Data) within enterprises and across enterprises. In all these cases a business process is driving the various interactions.

This pattern is a high-level Business pattern and can be subdivided into:

• Intra-enterprise (aka Enterprise Process-Centric business pattern)
  • Business-to-Business
  • Business-to-User
• Inter-enterprise (aka Extended Enterprise business pattern)
  • Business-to-Business
  • Business-to-User
• Business-to-Data (aka Bulk Processing)

• Cross Industry Examples
  • Straight Through Processing
  • Case processing
  • Approval processing
• Industry Specific Examples
  • Manufacturing
    • Build-to-order
    • Workflow Scheduling
  • Retail
    • Inventory Planning
    • Price Optimization
  • Financial
    • Cash Flow Analysis
    • Mortgage Approval

• Cross Industry Examples
  • Buy Side
    • Direct Procurement (SCM)
    • Indirect Procurement (MRO)
    • Supply chain execution
  • Sell Side
    • B2B e-commerce (Distributors)
    • B2C e-commerce (Consumers)
• Industry Specific Examples
  • Manufacturing
    • Supply chain planning
    • Supply chain execution
    • Vendor Managed Inventory
  • Travel
    • Checking flight or room availability
    • Making or modifying reservations
  • Retail
    • Checking supplier inventory
    • Placing replenishment orders
    • Paying suppliers automatically
  • Financial
    • Transferring payments
    • Checking account balances
    • Obtaining credit information
  • Telecommunication
    • OSS Integration
    • Cross organization order management
    • Managed service provider interconnect

• Cross Industry Examples
  • Bulk printing
  • Customer invoicing
  • Batch procssing

If you've determined that the Process-Centric business pattern business pattern can provide an appropriate solution design for your business need, the next step is to select an Intra-enterprise (Enterprise Process-Centric), an Inter-enterprise (Extended Enterprise) or a Bulk Processing solution.
The Process Centric business pattern can be implemented using any one of different Application patterns with a number of variations, providing solution flexibility so that the determined Business pattern can address the specific needs of the business process being automated.

• Patterns for e-business naming conventions

• Recast

  Updated: 03-12-2010
  The Process-Centric business pattern has been recast into Enterprise Process-Centric, Extended Enterprise and Bulk Processing business patterns.

• Introduction

  Updated: 03-12-2010
  The Process-Centric business pattern has been introduced to P4eb.

• Feasibility:
  This material will help you determine the high-level shape of a Process-Centric solution, and can ensure your approach looks similar to other successful implementations. Reuse of prior approaches can be an effective way to begin most major projects. Obviously, modifications will be needed for any unique requirements of a given set of partners. This pattern provides a drill-down from high-level architecture to low-level designs and guidance.

• Risk:
  Basing new projects on prior designs and ideas helps to lower the risk of failure. Creating or inventing approaches for each project tends to result in a lower success rate. Frequently, projects begun "from scratch" simply do not work and have major exposures in such areas as security, performance, availability, undefined requirements, and cost overrun.

• Cost-benefit:
  By starting with reasonably complete architecture you can save considerable development time and can obtain assurance that the end solution will have a much higher chance of success. Actual savings will vary, but project teams have realized a 10% to 50% reduction of work effort in their design and architecture phases alone.