Vivek Kale has more than two decades of professional IT experience during which he has handled and consulted on various aspects of enterprise-wide information modeling, enterprise architectures, business process re-design, and, e-business architectures. He has been Group CIO of Essar Group, the steel/oil & gas major of India, as well as Raymond Ltd., the textile & apparel major of India. He is a seasoned practitioner in digital transformation, facilitating business agility via process-centric enterprises and enhancing data-driven enterprise intelligence. He is the author of Guide to Cloud Computing for Business and Technology Managers: From Distributed Computing to Cloudware Applications, CRC Press (2015).

Professor Wil van der Aalst, RWTH Aachen University, ".....you will enjoy reading this book by Vivek Kale. It combines business aspects with technology trends and pointers to methods. Organizations should use the present book to make their enterprise architecture more process-centric and to prepare for a wave of data science-enabled business improvement approaches." Dr Mathias Kirchmer, Managing Director and Co-CEO for BPM-D - Enabling the next Generation Enterprise, "Kale shares his views and vast experience on enterprise wide process management and the underlying systems. This is an interesting contribution to the digitalization of process management itself, combining key business, method and technology aspects. The book is a great read for business and IT practitioners building and applying an enterprise business process management discipline."

• Enterprise SystemsCharacteristics of Business ProcessSystems TheoryEnterprise Architecture Process Architecture Enterprise ModelingDistributed Systems  Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)Cloud Computing Business Process Management  Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)Development of Process-centric Application Systems Engineering of Process-centric ApplicationsEPMS for Business Process Analysis EPMS for Business Process ReengineeringEPMS for Customer Conversations Appendix A Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)Appendix B Interaction Architectures       ReferencesIndex

Vivek Kale has more than two decades of professional IT experience during which he has handled and consulted on various aspects of enterprise-wide information modeling, enterprise architectures, business process re-design, and, e-business architectures. He has been Group CIO of Essar Group, the steel/oil & gas major of India, as well as Raymond Ltd., the textile & apparel major of India. He is a seasoned practitioner in digital transformation, facilitating business agility via process-centric enterprises and enhancing data-driven enterprise intelligence. He is the author of Guide to Cloud Computing for Business and Technology Managers: From Distributed Computing to Cloudware Applications, CRC Press (2015).

Professor Wil van der Aalst, RWTH Aachen University, ".....you will enjoy reading this book by Vivek Kale. It combines business aspects with technology trends and pointers to methods. Organizations should use the present book to make their enterprise architecture more process-centric and to prepare for a wave of data science-enabled business improvement approaches." Dr Mathias Kirchmer, Managing Director and Co-CEO for BPM-D - Enabling the next Generation Enterprise, "Kale shares his views and vast experience on enterprise wide process management and the underlying systems. This is an interesting contribution to the digitalization of process management itself, combining key business, method and technology aspects. The book is a great read for business and IT practitioners building and applying an enterprise business process management discipline."

• Enterprise SystemsCharacteristics of Business ProcessSystems TheoryEnterprise Architecture Process Architecture Enterprise ModelingDistributed Systems  Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)Cloud Computing Business Process Management  Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)Development of Process-centric Application Systems Engineering of Process-centric ApplicationsEPMS for Business Process Analysis EPMS for Business Process ReengineeringEPMS for Customer Conversations Appendix A Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)Appendix B Interaction Architectures       ReferencesIndex

Vivek Kale has more than two decades of professional IT experience during which he has handled and consulted on various aspects of enterprise-wide information modeling, enterprise architectures, business process re-design, and, e-business architectures. He has been Group CIO of Essar Group, the steel/oil & gas major of India, as well as Raymond Ltd., the textile & apparel major of India. He is a seasoned practitioner in digital transformation, facilitating business agility via process-centric enterprises and enhancing data-driven enterprise intelligence. He is the author of Guide to Cloud Computing for Business and Technology Managers: From Distributed Computing to Cloudware Applications, CRC Press (2015).

Professor Wil van der Aalst, RWTH Aachen University, ".....you will enjoy reading this book by Vivek Kale. It combines business aspects with technology trends and pointers to methods. Organizations should use the present book to make their enterprise architecture more process-centric and to prepare for a wave of data science-enabled business improvement approaches." Dr Mathias Kirchmer, Managing Director and Co-CEO for BPM-D - Enabling the next Generation Enterprise, "Kale shares his views and vast experience on enterprise wide process management and the underlying systems. This is an interesting contribution to the digitalization of process management itself, combining key business, method and technology aspects. The book is a great read for business and IT practitioners building and applying an enterprise business process management discipline."

• Enterprise SystemsCharacteristics of Business ProcessSystems TheoryEnterprise Architecture Process Architecture Enterprise ModelingDistributed Systems  Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)Cloud Computing Business Process Management  Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)Development of Process-centric Application Systems Engineering of Process-centric ApplicationsEPMS for Business Process Analysis EPMS for Business Process ReengineeringEPMS for Customer Conversations Appendix A Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)Appendix B Interaction Architectures       ReferencesIndex