Integrating Data for Business Process Management

To be able to utilize Web-scale resources for business processes and to adapt these processes to the dynamic change of environments, business process management suites/systems (BPMS) must be able to gather, integrate and manage various types of data in the lifecycle of business processes. We discuss the issue of integrating data for business process management. We provide an overview on the current state of how data is integrated into business process management and recommend new directions.