Disassembling the SOA & BPM Relationship
JP
Morgenthal, EA, SOA, BPM
& Cloud Computing
Strategist, gave a
provocative talk on
Disassembling the SOA
& BPM Relationship
at the March 2009
meeting of the SOA
Consortium in Washington
DC.
Morgenthal
opened with his
contention that SOA and
BPM are not the
hand-in-hand partners
that the technology
press and vendors would
like everyone to
believe. More so, SOA is
not a prerequisite for
BPM success. In backing
these assertions,
Morgenthal described BPM
as a practice that
encompasses modeling,
testing, implementing
and measuring business
processes, with
supporting methodology
to gather requirements,
document processes,
define KPIs, capture
metrics, analyze results
and optimize outcomes.
This
view of BPM as a
business discipline
comes straight from the
business practitioners
whom Morgenthal
interacts with on a
regular basis. The
confusion on the SOA-BPM
relationship comes from
IT professionals, who
solely focus on the
execution engine (BPMS)
of any BPM initiative.
As Morgenthal pointed
out, many successful BPM
initiatives have no
underlying technology
implementation.
Morgenthal’s
perspective provided for
a lively discussion with
meeting attendees. The
prevailing counter case
was that SOA also has a
business design element,
that many businesses are
organized as business
services, with
supporting process
implementations. A
supporting point was
that business personnel
are more likely to think
in terms of services
than processes.
Presentation
Abstract:
SOA & BPM are
strange bedfellows for
sure. Each one, alone,
struggles to be
understood, yet the
industry is fast to
couple them. However,
if we explore this
coupling in more
depth, there is little
detail as to how these
two entities relate on
anything more than a
pure technical
implementation level.
Is that the only
relationship they
share? Should these
two entities have a
deeper relationship?
In this talk, JP
Morgenthal will break
down the underpinnings
of SOA & BPM and
illustrate the real
story behind SOA &
BPM.
About the Speaker:
JP
Morgenthal is an EA,
SOA, BPM & Cloud
Computing Strategist.
For more of JP’s
leading views, please
visit
jpmorgenthal.com
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