Efficient enterprise management by business processes automation

Abstract

The speed of doing business today is growing exponentially. Therefore, it is the demand for shrinking response times in business processing, workflow and lines-of-business systems within an enterprise. Consequently organizations are generating incredible amounts of information round the year. They are continuously engaged in the creation, management and sharing a wide variety of data in a wide variety of forms, structures, formats and documents. Vast percentages of this data remains unstructured - databases, files, records, archives, statistics - out of reach of proper capability to deliver meaning for business efficiency or advantage. Business Process Automation (BPA) represents the efficient management of structured and unstructured data in an integrated fashion, helping enterprises to better manage and deploy information for operational productivity. The aim of paper is to explain how business process automation influences on the enterprise management efficiency improvement by B2B system implementation resulting from application of integration platform based on B2B model using Electronic Data Interchange standard and Web Service technology.