- From: Howard N Smith <howard.smith@ontology.org>
- Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:16:05 +0000
- To: public-ws-chor@w3.org
Robert said: .>I am an old ERP programmer, feature designer and user. I would be very interested in seeing that model, but remain a little skeptical. >Professor William McCarthy's students mapped his one-page REA (Resource-Event-Agent) ontology to some commercial ERP systems and >found something like 80% coverage. But that's a business-semantic model and the remaining 20% contains the usual deep ratholes. So if you >mean something like "use UML to model ERP" or "use Java to model ERP", that's one thing. If you mean "use BPML to model ERP and you're >done, you now have a fully-functional ERP system", it's something else again. What I mean is, there is nothing in ERP that I cannot model in BPML or BPEL. And, most significantly, when I do this, I am still in the domain of processes and process lifecycle, ie, there is no bottom, when the engine takes over and I cannot change the behaviour. This is what we mean by a native process platform. howard --- New Book - Business Process Management: The Third Wave www.bpm3.com Howard Smith/CSC/BPMI.org cell +44 7711 594 494 (operates worldwide, dial UK) office +44 20 8660 1963
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