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Bruce Silver has an interesting post on the convergence of BPM and SOA. As I've said before, I do think that the two technologies are interlinked. Spending the last two months at BEA has only solidified this idea in my mind. I've started to see more and more customers blurring the line between SOA, ESBs, and BPM in their technology purchases. I've found myself discussing the entire BEA AquaLogic stack as much as find myself discussing "pure" BPM.

One of Bruce's interesting points is that BPEL centric tools are following the lead of the BPM tools in having an a unified view of the business process that is shared between business and IT. Which is quite a coincidence, because I was just having the exact same discussion with a client last week. The client was expecting a tool that let the business analysts model a "logical diagram" which was then converted into a "physical diagram" by IT. They felt that the process that got deployed might be significantly different than that process which was modeled by the business. I explained to the customer that one of the core values of BPM is that there is one shared view of the process between business and IT.

This is one of my issues with the BPEL tools that require converting back and forth to BPEL. Trying to convert back and forth between formats means that business isn't really collaborating with IT efficiently. Having two separate modeling formats for business and IT just rebuilds the wall that BPM is trying to tear down.

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Posted by: jonase at June 16, 2006 05:18 AM