A development framework for integrating MIS and BPMS / Ahmed Abdelaziz Abass Hassanein ; Supervised Sherif A. Mazen , Ehab E. Hassanein

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Computers and Information - Department of Information Systems

For the organization to manage their business needs and attain competitive advantage it is imperative to use different types of Information systems to support two main areas: namely the transactions and data management as well as the business process management. Having a number of disparate systems could result into the repetition of work and present data inconsistencies. Thus the integration of these systems became of an extreme importance. The principle key objective of this research is to propose a framework for the development of an integrated and unified information system that will offer all the functions and features of both Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP) and the Business Process Management Systems (BMPS). This will provide the different organizations with the capability to eliminate the repetition of work and removing the inconsistencies of having two different systems. The proposed framework reduces the cost of integrating such systems as well as increasing the speed of their development process. It will be based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern. Justification for the choice is presented. The proposed framework is evaluated through presenting three case studies which compare the proposed framework results with other methods which achieve the ERP-BPM integration specifically the process code embedding method which is the other alternative method to achieve the integration during the development of the system. The results of the comparison show that faster development and reduced number of lines of code are used by average 24% leading to reducing the man/day cost needed to complete the system development by average 22.7%

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