Process-Centric Architecture for Enterprise Software Systems

Chapter 3

Concept of Process-Centric Architecture

3.1 Objectives

■  To appreciate the need for a new architectural approach for enterprise

■  To understand the central philosophy behind process-centric architecture

■  To know what PCA offers

■  To appreciate the power of process definition and execution

■  To see what is fundamentally behind this concept; the mathematical foundations that it is rooted on

3.2 The Case for a New Approach

We saw that there are major problems with the conventional architectural approaches. Some of the causes for these are

■  The process logic is implicit in the application code making the application less flexible to change.

■  The IT systems were not architected with business processes as their ...