Whitepaper: Next-generation enterprise IT - achieving business agility through BPM and SOA
- Author:
- Mick James
- Posted:
- 14:00 14 Nov 2008
- Topics:
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) | Workflow Management
Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) can be combined to deliver the holy grail of IT in business: the ability to have real business policy statements translate automatically into outcomes delivered by IT systems.
Gary Gomersall, IBM’s SOA evangelist, explains: “Business Process Management is the ‘what’, controlling whatever the business process is designed to do. Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) is the meat of how you drive towards that business outcome.
“The whole basis of the link between BPM and SOA is the need to focus on specific business outcomes,” says Gomersall, adding that the benefits of SOA can be grouped for this purpose into five areas: business flexibility, better business practices,
easier integration, reuse of assets, and reduction of risk."
This paper uses examples and case studies to demonstrate how effective IT can be in business when SOA and BPM are used in conjunction with each other.
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