There is a debate going on about the relationship between BPM (business process management) and SOA (service oriented architecture). Joe McKendrick reports on part of this debate. Also James Taylor adds a coin. Nick Malik plays his role as well and there are more.
To be honest, I never realized this subject as being ambiguous. But now I do. I love to join the debate.
- Isn't it fair to state that BPM is about a business process model and SOA about a way to abstract business functions (or process steps; sorry Steve, it's a matter of definition) from implementation?
- Isn't it fair to state that BPM is about the top level layer (business view) of inter-related composite structures?
- Isn't it fair to state the composite structures are modeled by SOA?
- Isn't it fair to state that BPM has a horizontal scope and SOA a vertical scope?
- Isn't it fair to state that SOA is the link between the business view (top level layer) and the IT-view (sub level layers)?
I hope this posting is a valuable contribution to the BPM-SOA debate.
2 comments:
Yes it is fair to say all those things.
JT
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Interesting post. To be honest, I don't see these concepts as ambiguous either; To me, BPM is about closing the loop on business processes, while as you said, SOA is about abstracting business processes to facilitate integration.
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