EUROPEAN BPM ROUND TABLE Successful Valorization of Business Process Management Re- search Through the European BPM Round Table The European BPM Round Table is a lenges that urgently need to be ad- federation of 21 national BPM round dressed by the BPM community were tables aiming to transfer cutting - edge discussed. research into new products and ser- vices in the area of Business Process Management (BPM). During the spe- cial meeting of the European BPM Round Table on November 5th 2012, internationally well - known researchers, together with representatives of the companies they cooperate with, pre- sented their joint work. The presenta- tions reported on experiences in suc- cessfully transferring state - of - the - art BPM research results into practical ap- plications. Moreover, important chal- european bpm round table research meets practice www.bpmroundtable.eu
Several presentations reported on the application of BPM technology and process mining in the medical domain. Yaron Denekamp of Clalit Health Ser- vices and Arturo González Ferrer of the University of Haifa showed the use of clinical decision support in oncology. Stefanie Weber of the Medical Univer- sity of Vienna and Stefanie Rinderle - Ma of the University of Vienna reported on the application of process mining to skin cancer treatment. Marco Aimar of Opera21 Group SpA and Florian Daniel of the University of Trento discussed the challenges they were confronted with when extracting event data from heterogeneous sys- tems. Such abstractions are crucial for the successful application of process mining techniques. Manfred Reichert presented on the impressive results of a long - running cooperation between Daimler AG and University of Ulm. He showed the im- pact BPM research can have on the car industry where processes tend to be complex and highly dynamic. It was a nice example showing the challenges related to “BPM - in - the - large”. There are currently 21 national BPM round tables . You are invited. european bpm round table research meets practice www.bpmroundtable.eu
Johannes Schwall of PICTURE system that supported process mining GmbH and Patrick Delfmann and Mi- in a comprehensive manner. Now, Per- chael Rackers of the University of ceptive and TU/e are collaborating on Muenster showed the results from their “bringing configurable process models successful collaboration in the BPM ar- to the cloud”. During their joint presen- ea. A modeling approach initially devel- tation also the new “ Perceptive BPM oped at the university resulted in a suc- Research Center @ TU/e ” was an- cessful spin - off company that has cus- nounced. This center is funded by Per- tomers all over Germany. ceptive and aims to support BPM re- search driven by questions from Per- John Hoogland of Perceptive Soft- ceptive Software. Hajo Reijers , who ware and Wil van der Aalst of the also served as chair of the round - table Eindhoven University of Technology meeting, will lead this initiative. (TU/e) presented the results of their cooperation. Various ideas and soft- There were also shorter presentations ware developed at TU/e have been from Rafael Montes of TimeProcess, embedded into the products of Percep- Oscar Pastor of the University of Va- tive Software. For example, BPMone of lencia, and Theresa Schmiedel of the Perceptive Software was the first BPM University of Liechtenstein. european bpm round table research meets practice www.bpmroundtable.eu
Overall the meeting was very success- among the most cited computers sci- ful. There were 115 attendants, most- entists in the world). Nevertheless, ly from industry . The meeting demon- most of today's BPM software comes strated the practical relevance of BPM from the US. Therefore, there is an op- research and illustrated that various portunity to turn research results in- round tables spread over Europe are to new economic activity . However, successfully connecting universities, this requires support from European software vendors, consultants, and end decision makers (European Union, lo- - users. However, there is a clear need cal governments, and venture capital to lift this to the European level. There- funds). In this spirit, the European BPM fore, EIT ICT Labs is supporting the Round Table aims to increase the visi- consolidation of successful national bility of BPM research and its econom- BPM round tables into a single Eu- ic potential. ropean BPM round table where expe- riences can be exchanged, knowledge For more information on the European can be transferred, and new initiatives BPM Round Table and videos of the can be initiated at the European level. meeting visit the website . Also see the interview with Springer and the news Europe is clearly leading in BPM re- article in Cursor (in Dutch). search as can be seen at the main conferences in the field and the enor- mous impact of the research in terms of citations (BPM researchers are BPM round table The Netherlands BPM round table Estonia BPM round table Vienna BPM round table Liechtenstein BPM round table Innsbruck BPM round table Poznań BPM round table Leuven BPM round table Haifa BPM round table Ghent BPM round table Lucerne BPM round table Ulm BPM round table Lugano BPM round table Bayreuth BPM round table Milano BPM round table Berlin/Potsdam BPM round table Trento BPM round table Baden BPM round table France BPM round table Münster BPM round table Spain BPM round table Stockholm BPM round table Norway For more information and a link to your national BPM round table, visit: www.bpmroundtable.eu Contact: info@bpmroundtable.eu european bpm round table research meets practice www.bpmroundtable.eu
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