Toward the Realization of Policy-Oriented Enterprise Management

A goal-driven approach to business process composition uses generic, logic-based strategies, descriptions of Web services, and formalized business policies to generate business processes that satisfy the stated business goals. The approach is based on an enterprise physics metaphor, in which business objects are analogous to physical objects and policies are analogous to physical laws. Medium and large businesses use traditional enterprise software systems to manage diverse operations in modules that are part of a unified software reflection (that is, how the software represents the enterprise´s organizational structure). Each of these modules typically provides support for an entire business department. Examples of such modules include 1) a business intelligence suite (information warehouse and analytics), 2) customer relationship management, 3) supply chain management, and 4) enterprise resource planning.