How to Evaluate the Practical Relevance of Business Process Compliance Checking Approaches?

To comply with legal regulations becomes a more and more challenging task for companies of all industry sectors. In particular business processes have to comply with legal requirements. Its checking and control lead to tedious tasks for compliance managers. In order to reduce the compliance management effort special checking approaches have been developed that enable an automatic check of processes regarding their compliance with laws and regulations. Until now, these approaches appear in research but lack in practical evaluation. To close this gap an evaluation method based on the technology acceptance model and focus group sessions as well as its application is presented in this paper.