Business processes integrate systems, partners, and people to achieve key
strategic and operations objectives. Examples of business processes include
getting and filling orders, processing invoices, reconciling shipping notices
and received goods and processing insurance claims and loan applications. The
Holy Grail of enterprise computing is adaptive business processes that can be
defined, refined, and optimized to respond to changing business environments,
government regulations and competitive pressures. This vision has followed us
through the evolution of mainframes, Management Information Systems (MIS),
packaged applications, J2EE-based application platforms, business process
management systems (BPMS) and now, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). We
are getting there!
Many solutions exist for designing and deploying business processes. Some are
derived from pr... (more)