The major objective of the SUPER (Semantics Utilised for Process Management within and between EnterpRises) project is to raise Business Process Management (BPM) to the business level, where it belongs, from the IT level where it mostly resides now. This objective requires that BPM is accessible at the level of semantics of business experts.

SUPER project answers the two most urgent issues emerging from Business Process Modelling (BPM):

• shift in control of processes from IT professionals to business natives
• carrying up business process management to a new complexity level

Semantic Web and, in particular, Semantic Web Services (SWS) technology offer the promise of integrating applications at the semantic level. By combining SWS and BPM, and developing one consolidated technology SUPER will create horizontal ontologies which describe business processes and vertical telecommunications oriented ontologies to support domain-specific annotation.

Therefore this project aims at providing a semantic-based and context-aware framework, based on Semantic Web Services technology that acquires, organises, shares and uses the knowledge embedded in business processes within existing IT systems and software, and within employees' heads, in order to make companies more adaptive.

IBIS Prof. Thome AG is one of the consortium members and brings in detailed knowledge in analysing productive ERP systems (based on RBE Plus). The task of IBIS within SUPER is to extend the existing RBE methodology by introducing semantics and to establish analysis capabilities within the provided framework.

For current publications on this subject, see
- Using semantics to Aid Scenario-Based Analysis
- Semantic Business Process Analysis
- Business Process Analysis

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