A next-generation business process management tool - ADONIS: concepts and applications

At present, state-of-the-are business process management tools usually offe r hard-coded methods, that are only partially adaptable. Tools based on met amodeling concepts are here named "next-generation tools". The paper descri bes the potential of these tools by taking ADONIS as an example. Based on t he explanation of the ADONIS concepts three application areas and its corre sponding methods are presented: The integrated management of products and b usiness processes, the development of workflow applications and the model-b ased configuration of standard software.