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.
Is Your Process Recommendation Ready for the Room?
A process recommendation can be clear to you and still fail in the room. That is one of the harder lessons in process work. You may understand the issue. You may have done the analysis. You may know why the recommendation matters and what should happen next. But the...


















