Process Automation as the Foundation for E-Business

Summary: Workflow automation is the foundation for e-business, linking front-end interfaces to back-end systems and enabling integrated, automated, monitored processes. Illustrated by a startup case where HP Changengine serves as the core e-business platform. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8711
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 4.9675287e-05
Overall Rank: 6,659 | 53.73%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Fabio Casati
2. Ming-Chien Shan

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,242	Business Process Coordination: State of the Art, Trends, and Open Issues	2001	VLDB	4.7863368e-05
9,516	Automating the Enterprise with Foundation Models	2024	VLDB	4.3294347e-05

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