摘要 |
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for providing a business process over a network. A network connects several network nodes and a central repository. Each network node is associated with an organizational entity and represents a user, a service, or a computer application. The central repository, stores a business process describing a logical sequence of operations to be performed on data supplied to the business process, provides the business process to an organizational entity in response to a request from the organizational entity, receives customization data for the business process from the entity, which includes organization-specific data for the entity and further defines operations of the business process, and stores the received customization data such that the organization-specific data is retrievable by the associated business process and modifiable by a business user authorized by the organizational entity associated with the customized business process.
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