Through the recent evolution of BPM around the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) standard, a comprehensive SOA platform has become a key requirement for implementing standards-based BPM. SOA empowers a business environment with a flexible IT infrastructure and reusable business and systems services for deploying processes. This white paper from IDC covers the requirements for building a comprehensive SOA platform including BPEL, service development, integration, management, and security.
How to Lead BPM Initiatives Without an IT Background
A common misconception about Business Process Management (BPM) is that you need a deep technical background to orchestrate meaningful process improvement initiatives. While having some familiarity with information systems can be helpful, BPM is ultimately about...