This SOA paper discusses the benefits of SOA as an architectural principle that opens the door to using IT technology in new ways to help improve efficiency and productivity. Along with an enterprise architecture – the intellectual component of an SOA – organizations can approach SOA as a new way to enable architecture instead of another new technology to move data. Serving as a platform for benefiting from the value proposition of SOA, enterprise architecture helps organizations avoid the trap of formalizing old ways of doing things using new technology, ensuring SOA delivers on its benefits of reconfigurability and agility.
The BPM Lifecycle: Exploring Models for Strategy to Execution and Continuous Improvement
BPM lifecycle—the conceptual framework organizations use to describe how processes are managed, improved, and governed over time. But here’s the truth: we don’t have a standardized model of the BPM lifecycle. And in fact, that’s one of the things we love about BPM....