After his study of the engineering sciences in Stuttgart and London, Thomas Allweyer graduated with a Doctorate from the Institute of Economic Informatics at the University of Saarland. Afterwards, he was a management consultant and product manager with IDS Scheer in Saarbrücken. A position followed involving the creation of the electronic procurement platform emaro, a joint-venture of Deutscher Bank and SAP. Today he is working as a Professor for Enterprise Modelling and Business Process Management at the Advanced Technical College at Kaiserslautern. His textbook "Business Process Management - Strategy, Design, Implementation, Control", which appeared in 2005, is used in a range of colleges as a groundwork for the introduction to the subject of business process management.