TY  - JOUR
A1  - Combi, Carlo
A1  - Oliboni, Barbara
A1  - Weske, Mathias
A1  - Zerbato, Francesca
T1  - Seamless conceptual modeling of processes with transactional and analytical data
JF  - Data & knowledge engineering
N2  - In the field of Business Process Management (BPM), modeling business processes and related data is a critical issue since process activities need to manage data stored in databases. The connection between processes and data is usually handled at the implementation level, even if modeling both processes and data at the conceptual level should help designers in improving business process models and identifying requirements for implementation. Especially in data -and decision-intensive contexts, business process activities need to access data stored both in databases and data warehouses. In this paper, we complete our approach for defining a novel conceptual view that bridges process activities and data. The proposed approach allows the designer to model the connection between business processes and database models and define the operations to perform, providing interesting insights on the overall connected perspective and hints for identifying activities that are crucial for decision support.
KW  - Conceptual modeling
KW  - Business process modeling
KW  - BPMN
KW  - Data modeling
KW  - Data warehouse
KW  - Decision support
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2021.101895
SN  - 0169-023X
SN  - 1872-6933
VL  - 134
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -