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| WHAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN BPM AND SOA? |
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Business Process Management (BPM) has grown out of the Business Process Re-engineering movement of the 90's. It empowers businesses to align IT systems with strategic goals by creating well defined enterprise business processes, monitoring their performance, and optimising for greater operational efficiencies. BPM toolsets allows business analysts to create process models, using notations such as BPMN, and then performs the business process automation, or execution of the model and provides monitoring and management capabilities. However, the catch is that enterprises want to leverage their existing systems and include them into the new business processes - a challenge that a lot of BPM solutions have failed to address thus far. Unfortunately, enterprises have tremendously complex IT environments that have evolved, often over several decades, using different platforms, different technologies (Java, .NET, CICS, etc.), and different communication standards. This is where SOA is fast becoming the enabler for BPM – proprietary protocols and implementation mechanisms are replaced with standards based interfaces, integration protocols, and concept definitions. They are portable between vendors and allow other tools and technologies to be added into the mix as needed in the future. Equally BPM is critical to the whole concept of SOA. It is the business face of SOA. Whilst SOA unlocks the functionality trapped in a company’s existing IT assets, BPM enables the rapid assembly of new business processes to support the organisations initiatives; delivering the visibility and control that enterprises need to optimise their operations. The reality is that together, they facilitate greater re-use of IT assets, faster delivery of value to the business, and greater adaptability to support ongoing change. As can be seen, they are very different concepts, but are completely synergistic to each other and each is spreading rapidly into the other domain. They can exist without each other but when combined they provide huge value to a business. In fact we are experiencing that most organisations adopting SOA are also incorporating BPM and using them together in a single coordinated initiative. This approach is also prevalent with leading vendors of software development and business applications. Oracle offers integrated suites that cover both BPM and SOA that speed process innovation by rapidly modelling business processes and converting them into IT executables. It is almost impossible to see a future where BPM and SOA projects will be performed in isolation – perhaps it is time to have a new acronym that embodies the fusion of BPM and SOA! Suggestions are welcome! |
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| BRIGHT FUTURE FOR ORACLE APPLICATIONS |
Oracle's application strategy is very strong and if the execution continues as planned Oracle will continue to dominate the market. Underpinning Oracle's strategy is SOA and Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle's latest version of E-Business Suite, Release 12 has no shortage of new features. The most significant change is that it is the first Oracle release to embody SOA principles and marks the beginning of a new way of application convergence. Oracle's other product lines Siebel, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards and Oracle Fusion Applications (Oracle's next-generation of applications) are all following suit. The message is clear : SOA plays a crucial role in Oracle's application and technology strategy and will be almost "inevitable" for all Oracle users. Oracle Applications customers can prepare and benefit from SOA today - contact us to find out how our Application customers are benefiting from SOA. |
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