Software and business process technology

The tutorial presents the state-of-the-art technology in software process and business process technology and its exploitation in an industrial context. The technology presented includes languages, tools, and substrates (data base and operating system functionality) being used to model, analyse, and execute business and software processes. The industrial context is based on building, using, and selling a complete workflow environment including tools for modeling, analysing, and executing workflows. This environment called LEU (LION Environment) is used in various industrial sectors like real estate, software process, and insurance. It has been built by especially exploiting available software process technology and adapting the technology to other business contexts. LION is a 400 person software house. LEU is its key strategic product in the workflow area. Besides presenting state-of-the-art technology, the tutorial demonstrates in particular that software process technology is applied successfully in the general workflow area.