The BPM standards landscape: confusion and evolution: Industry Report

The BPM standards landscape: confusion and evolution

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: March 2007
Product Code: R464-468

Description

Business process management (BPM) is a key concern for both business and IT people, although many are confused as to what exactly BPM is and how to implement it. The confusion is compounded by the many claims vendors make about BPM standards. Many currently focus on WS-BPEL (Web Services Business Process Execution Language - usually shortened to BPEL). To help them our report entitled ‘BPEL: not quite there yet’ provides an overview of what BPEL is and how it is evolving.

However, it provides only a partial picture of the current situation; it is not possible to understand the impact that BPEL will have on the BPM market without understanding the wider BPM standards context and its evolution. At that level, things are still in a remarkable state of flux, which confuses vendors, users, and unfortunately many analysts. It is, nonetheless, not only possible but also necessary to put all the pieces together to understand the big picture and its impact on vendor and user strategies. Hence, this report puts BPEL in a wider perspective and defines how BPEL relates to other standards such as the Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN), Unified Modelling Language (UML), Business Process Definition Meta-model (BPDM) and XML Process Definition Language (XPDL).

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Key messages: There has been some consolidation; The situation remains fairly complicated and fluid; BPMN may steal BPEL’s thunder; XPDL will not go away anytime soon; BPMN, the ‘other’ key BPM standard
Overview: A young specification with a complicated background; Caught in the web of OMG’s standard efforts; A difficult relationship to BPEL; XPDL, the long distance runner; Modelling tool to execution engine interface; WfMC and XDPL struggle for relevance; XPDL vs. BPDM and BPEL
Appendix - BPMN components: Process types; Process constructs

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