The Internet of Things Meets Business Process Management: A Manifesto
The extent to which the Internet of Things and business process management can be combined is questioned, and emerging challenges and intersections are discussed from a research and practitioner's point of view in terms of complex software systems development.
Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a network of connected devices\ncollecting and exchanging data over the Internet. These things can be\nartificial or natural, and interact as autonomous agents forming a complex\nsystem. In turn, Business Process Management (BPM) was established to analyze,\ndiscover, design, implement, execute, monitor and evolve collaborative business\nprocesses within and across organizations. While the IoT and BPM have been\nregarded as separate topics in research and practice, we strongly believe that\nthe management of IoT applications will strongly benefit from BPM concepts,\nmethods and technologies on the one hand; on the other one, the IoT poses\nchallenges that will require enhancements and extensions of the current\nstate-of-the-art in the BPM field. In this paper, we question to what extent\nthese two paradigms can be combined and we discuss the emerging challenges.\n