Conceptually, a Dynamic Enterprise Management System (DEMS) represents a combination of Business Process Management (BPM) software, Adaptive Case Management (ACM) software, Information Asset Management (IAM) software, Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) software, and Business Semantics Management (BSM) software.

Viewed from a more technical perspective, a DEMS may be thought of as the marriage of Semantic Enterprise Architecture (with an emphasis on Executable Business Architecture), BPM (in a wider context including ACM), and SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture).

DEMS software is centered around the concept of business artifacts. A business artifact is a conceptual entity that combines an information model for the entity and a life cycle into a holistic unit, thus representing a blend of process and data, and effectively breaking the traditional separation between process and data. As such, a business artifact represents a basic building block from which models of business operations (which are described by business processes) are constructed. Business artifacts can be assembled to create artifact compositions of arbitrary complexity.

Another principal and distinctive characteristic of a DEMS is that business architecture is executable. Business architecture elements are represented as models that are directly executable, meaning that there is no need to transform a model into some kind of code unit before actual execution. In contrast, a run-time engine (execution engine) performs on the fly transformation into executable code and its execution in one pass.

A DEMS relies on a comprehensive business architecture and a composition architecture that allows business domain experts to perform dynamic business artifact composition even at run-time.

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