Project No.: 5003-045341 01.03.1996 - 28.02.1998

Project leader: Dr. Petra Vogler, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, University of St. Gallen
e-mail: Petra.Vogler@IWI.unisg.ch

Name of project: Process integration procedures

Partners:
Dr. Thomas Gutzwiller, Information Management Group, St. Gallen
Harro Franzstack, AGI Zürich

Funding: Sfr 197,750.-

Summary:
The rapid implementation of new IT-based business strategies is increasingly crucial to making companies competitive. The aim of the present research project is to develop a practical procedure for putting business processes into effect in a heterogeneous information system. This procedure is based on the one hand on workflow systems and on the other on integrating package software, new developments and legacy applications and data sets. Intermediate goals are to establish criteria for the use of workflow systems and of various process-conversion strategies. This will be followed by the development of interface and redundancy management concepts. Finally, this work will lay the foundations for a process integration procedure methodology. Results will be validated for practicability in association with the research partner IMG (Information Management Gesellschaft) by regular contacts with companies and by operating pilot projects.

Cooperation:
The lead applicant works in the institute of business information technology of the University of St. Gallen. The first industrial partner is Information Management Gesellschaft, St. Gallen.