On the Identification of Data-Related Compliance Problems in Business Processes

Abstract

Ensuring the compliance of business processes with regulations is becoming increasingly important to organizations. in this scenario, data play an important role. Little work has been done on data checking in business processes and no standard definitions have been given to describe data-related compliance problems. The goal of this paper is three-fold: (i) to identify and organise the data-related compliance problems that may arise in a business process model and thus to introduce a common vocabulary for these problems, (ii) to analyse the capabilities of BPMN 2.0 for defining business process models with sufficient information about data to enable the checking of data-related compliance problems, and (iii) to describe the current situation of data-related compliance in terms of the existing automated support and envisage future work to deal with data-aware business process compliance checking.