SOA filling the Gaps

BPEL for the People  is not a new song like John Lennon 's Power to the People . It is a new extension to WS-BPEL standard called officially BPEL4People. The new extension goal is to address Human Processes to the automatic processes addressed so far by BPEL. The proposed extension was submitted to OASIS as draft in 2009. In my lecture on SOA &  BPM in a CIO s course, a week ago I summarized the current status of BPM by the following bullets: Many enterprises did not start their BPM initiative Usually a BPM effort is executed together with a SOA initiative. Sometimes they are not synchronized because SOA is initiated by IT while BPM is initiated by a Business unit. In many cases the implementation scope is in a departmental level or a Business Line and not in the Enterprise . A large number of BPM tools in the market indicating an immature market Beginning of market consolidation due to acquisitions As far as BPM standar...

A previous post   SOA & BPM referred the issue of bidirectional gateway between BPM modeling and BPM implementation. The build of updated model from changed implementation or vice versa could also be termed as Round Tripping. Recently, I read an Industry Trends Report named "BRIDGING THE BUSINESS-IT DIVIDE IN ENTERPRISE CLASS PROCESSES" written by Bruce Silver Associates . The trends report topic is BPM and its relationship to SOA . The report illustrates the difficulties of bridging between Business BPM Analysts and Information Technology experts and also between SOA type BPM based on BPEL and Human based BPM nased upon Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) OMG 's standard. The Round Tripping of BPEL based execution and BPMN based modeling is another challenge. Another issue analyzed is the requirement for bridging between Metadata model, Data model and Programming model developed by using different tool sets. The context of the report is limited ...