Building Business Processes

• What's needed

  • Handling realistic business processes
    • Integrating internal systems, partner systems with customers and workflow
  • Web services are not always enough
  • Managing change:
    • Evolving standards
    • Changing business processes
    • Partner system changes
    • Mergers & acquisitions

• Benefits

  • Leverages existing IT assets – crosses application silos, facilitates STP
  • Business needs, not IT, drives the business process
  • Separates business process from integration technology
  • Process re-use – the basis for SOA