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Does Software as a Service and business process management belong together? That's the question asked by ebizQ contributor Alan Earls. Alan reports that leading analysts are positive about the concept of SaaS-delivered BPM -- but cautious: Consider what Forrester Research's... Read More..

Much of the discussion occurring in the ebizQ ecosphere in recent weeks has been evolving around new ways to manage organizations, employing the new tools and thinking arising out of BPM, service orientation and social media.Dion Hinchliffe, the industry's most... Read More..

Last month, we discussed the different roles of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), with the general observation that BPMN was for businesspeople, and BPEL was for techs.As validation of the application of BPMN to... Read More..

There's been plenty of buzz in the ebizQ and TechTarget ecospheres about the convergence of BPM, cloud, and SOA best practices as organizations seek greater agility to compete in the emerging economy -- one in which digital businesses will prevail.... Read More..

After several years of a flattened economy, spending in the middleware and application infrastructure category is going gangbusters. Gartner says spending in this category increased by more than seven percent during the year 2010, driven by two initiatives -- service... Read More..

Everyone talks about reusability -- the ability to write once, run everywhere.  But in reality, the deck is stacked against it.That's the cautionary note sounded by Todd Biske, enterprise architect extraordinaire and author of SOA Governance: The Key to Successful... Read More..

I usually don't delve too deeply into specific product reviews here at SOA in Action, but it's worth pointing to a post by Mark Nelson on the interplay between BPM and SOA methodologies and features that is supported in Oracle's... Read More..

Give businesspeople a reason to care about SOA, give them business process management. I want to call out an article written exactly two years ago by Kaushal Mashruwala in the Financial Express. Kaushal made a lot of sense, and makes... Read More..

The boom (is that an understatement?) in mobile devices being brought into the workplace could swamp even the best IT operations. However, it may also present an opportunity for enterprise architects.  David Barnes, a program director at IBM's Emerging Technologies... Read More..

What is Service Portfolio Management, and why does it matter?In the era of service orientation, some companies now have hundreds, in some cases, thousands of services under their roofs. How many are duplicates?  How many are outmoded, or broken? Toufic... Read More..