BPIDE: A Business Process IDE Supporting Multi-role Collaboration

Business Process Management aims at creating business values for enterprises in a more flexible and competitive way. However, an integrated development environment for developing business processes with good support of multi-role collaboration is still rarely studied. In this paper, a business process integrated development environment called BPIDE based on a role-sensitive framework is designated to provide different roles (especially the analysts and developers) in different stages to work on business processes together in a more efficient way. We also elaborate on the implementation of BPIDE using a new development pattern. At last, a case study is used to demonstrate how different roles can develop business processes collaboratively with BPIDE.