I believe that Steve gives you his answer. My solution for this is re-formulate
'business process' into service-oriented terms and engage service flexibility
(no necessary manual or automated but, possibly, a mixture of them). So, the
terms are (from 'Ladder to SOE' and"Do we really, really have to deal with
BPMand 'processes'?" at
http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2009/04/do_we_really_really_have_to_deal_with_bpm_and_processes.php):
* business process is defined as business service via final goal, RWE
and input data/interface, i.e. as a regular service
* business process relationship with other entities (outside of its
boarded) and dependencies are defined via service relationship and dependencies
* business process' internal logic is externalised and delegated to the
decision making services
* business process actions are services (automated, manual or their
mixture)
* business process action-services are engaged based on offered
business functionality and RWE rather than based on preliminary defined
coupling between orchestrating entity and action-servicesIn addition, I, once
again, has to mention that choreography(as it is defined today) is the least
suitable process mechanism from the process flexibility perspective
("Service-oriented chess game: choreography or orchestration?" at
http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/service_oriented/2009/05/service-oriented_chess_game_choreography_or_orchestration_part_1.php)
- Michael
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From: htshozawa <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2009 8:52:32 PM
Subject: [service-orientated-architecture] Re: Anne again on SOA's Mortality
--- In service-orientated- architecture@ yahoogroups. com, Steve Jones
<jones.steveg@ ...> wrote:
> Which is indeed true and why fixed BPM engines are often very poor as
> BUSINESS process engines as they don't allow flexible business
> decisions.
>
So, what is your suggestion on obtaining a flexibility in business process
technically or are you suggesting that we should be doing business activities
all by hand?
H.Ozawa
