fabric. Now we've got BPEL. You couldn't do end-to-end BPM before.
The problem is...BPEL doesn't give you end-to-end BPM, either. BPEL is too complex for a business analyst, and it's also too limited in capability to support real-world, complex scenarios that may require human intervention.
Anne
<<Today's organizations are striving to be more agile to better
respond to change and new opportunity. Process improvement and
innovation will be key to doing so. However, according to a recent
survey conducted by the BPM Forum and webMethods Inc. only about
one-third of respondents are satisfied with their company's ability to
respond to change. The survey found that the biggest obstacle to
modifying core business processes is a lack of functional integration,
followed by human factors, cultural resistance and incompatible legacy
systems.
Most companies have growth as a number one priority, both through
revenue and market increases. What is going to drive this growth is a
new business model, said Ashish Mohindroo, senior product director for
Oracle Fusion Middleware at Oracle Corp. "Companies are introducing
and defining new business processes and most of these guys are looking
at IT and business process management [BPM] to shorten the gap from
strategy to execution. They want new business models implemented as
soon as possible. That's where BPM becomes more critical. We see a
tremendous uptake in the need for a BPM platform."
Forrester Research has projected that the market for BPM suites will
grow from $1.2 billion in 2005 to $2.7 billion in 2009. Forrester also
notes advancements in key standards, such as Business Process
Management Notation (BPMN), XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) and
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).
However, according to many in the industry, the combination BPM and
service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the ideal.
While BPM is independent of the underlying architecture, "the
combination of BPM and SOA makes a killer platform," Mohindroo said.
"It's easier to shorten the gap between the definition of a business
process and execution with SOA. It's easier to pull and access
applications in the back end and tie them to business processes.
That's direction we're moving with Oracle Fusion."
Oracle's BPEL Process Manager is part of the Fusion middleware suite.
In addition, Mohindroo said Oracle Fusion applications, which will
begin rolling out in 2008, will embed the BPEL Process Manager.
The Market Shifts
Oracle is not alone in its foray into BPM. All the heavy hitters are
moving in this direction.
"Any vendor who wants to have a credible SOA solution in order to
build loosely coupled, composite, service-oriented applications will
necessarily have to have a business process aspect to their product,"
said Ron Schmelzer, a senior analyst at ZapThink LLC. "IBM, Oracle and
Microsoft already have this capability as well as vendors like Sonic
Systems, Fiorano and SOA Software. Even emerging composite application
vendors like SEEC Systems, Webify Solutions, Tenfold and others are
adding BPM capabilities to their SOA infrastructure. Vendors need to
have process capabilities if they plan to have a credible solution in
the space."
"Some BPM [products are] implemented on SOA today. All vendors say
they are," said industry analyst Bruce Silver of Bruce Silver
Associates. "Some rely on SOA and define processes in terms of service
orchestration and some don't. Some just use SOA for the integration
parts of the process [machine to machine], some for the entire process."
There are two threads in this area, Silver said. One is, "how do we
expand SOA to include BPM as one of the applications of SOA? Others
see BPM as really more about improving human workflow and business
integration."
While BPM may have started with workflow, SOA is helping to make
end-to-end BPM possible, said Pierre Fricke, director of product
management for JBoss, now a division of Red Hat Inc. "There are
hundreds of vendors that solve BPM from a vertical angle, many started
in the workflow arena," he said, "but all are quite limited and
disjointed. There were no real standards before we got to an SOA
fabric. Now we've got BPEL. You couldn't do end-to-end BPM before. You
could [only] do pieces because the IT environment may have been
incompatible. In the new world BPM can cross these silos lot easier
than before." >>
You can read this in full at:
<http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1195582,00.html?track=NL-110&ad=556376 >
Gervas
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