Process Portals are the fundament for he realisation of service oriented architectures (SOA). They are the central interface for all applications and their use by humans (human-machine integration). The role based personalization along user processes is the major added value of process portals which includes the integration of the necessary backend applications (machine-machine integration). SOA is based on the same concept, a process and service oriented view of the enterprise and the componentisation and flexibilisation of the IS/IT architecture. Compared with traditional architecture approaches, such as e.g. the client/server architecture, SOA expands this model with the process portal (human-machine integration) and the integration infrastructure (machine-machine integration) as two additional components. This article describes the construction principles of SOA with process portals as a starting point and presents a method for the realization of this architecture approach in the ...
