MDPE Workbench- A Solution for Performance related Decision Support

Abstract. Continuous optimization of business process execution in-cluding its adaptation to changes within the market environment or the company itself becomes increasingly important. Therefore, business per-formance related decision support needs to be an integral part of Business Process Management (BPM) Environments. We experienced that such a support is especially useful when dealing with complex and resource intensive business processes, such as business processes with layered use of resources or with very complex workflows. Also the statistical distri-bution of the history data or the plan data related to a process might be a reason for such support. In this paper we present our generic Model-Driven Performance Engineering (MDPE) Workbench, which seamlessly integrates different kinds of existing Performance Analysis Tools, such as discrete event simulation tools and optimization tools, with the design-time and runtime of different BPM Environments. In more detail, the MDPE Workbench allows a push-button performance related decision support based on existing process models and process instance data with-out requiring deep performance expertise of BPM users.