The Insider's Guide to Next-Generation BPM
By Gian Trotta, ebizQ , 04/04/2003
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Combining Business Process Management with Composite Application (CA) development can reap rewards for companies now and down the road. It enables them to preserve existing technology investments, provides more agile technology infrastructures, and better supports short-term customer service and long-term business goals.
Those themes prevailed in the expoQ webinar The Role Of BPM In Composite Application Development, sponsored by Quovadx.
Tom Dwyer, who oversees The Aberdeen Group’s middleware and integration technology group, told webinar viewers that BPM’s ability to “design, deploy, execute, analyze and optimize end-to-end business processes” is complemented by composite apps, which are new applications or business solutions created by combining existing functionality. That’s accomplished with products such as integration middleware.
What’s more, “Business process management suppliers would correctly posit that they're a framework from which you can successfully develop composite applications.” Using the two together allows “rapid integration of many processes and data sources … from a business-definition perspective under a process-aware integration engine.” And easily modified processes can quickly respond to problems or opportunities, Dwyer notes.
All those capabilities are critically important even when IT budgets aren’t as tight as they are now. For instance, “Seventy percent of planned mergers failed to achieve their objectives, and oftentimes the cause for failure is identified as an incompatible information technology systems,” Dwyer points out.
And BPM and CAd can be efficiently applied in verticals, Dwyer says. “Banking, health care, automotive and aerospace each have specific particular processes.You need to find them and capitalize on the integration points and process flow. Different vertical markets will have different definitions of important information elements. Some of them are common, like a customer, address, purchase order or approval… but they'll also have a unique set that’s specific to the industry.”
Dwyer sees it all fitting together through the “ability to deliver composite application through an easy-to-use intuitive interface … and bringing in content and data, responding to alerts, or easily talking to front-office and relationship marketing systems.”
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