Business Process Management

This page contains various links related to topics in the BPM, BPML, BPEL4WS, and business integration arenas. Since most of these also make use of Web Services (aka SOAP), take a look at the Web Services page as well.

http://www.bpmi.org - The Business Process Management Initiative

Coordination of Business Process is a science - http://www.darwinmag.com/read/040103/wavecoordinate.html

Build to adapt, not just last. BPM may provide the highest ROI of any software category today. http://eai.ebizq.net/bpm/smithfingar_1.html

Library of reading material - http://www.bpmi.org/library.esp

A book on BPM: http://www.fairdene.com/. Interesting quote "If you think Ford’s most important product is the automobile, think again, say the authors. Instead, the process of making automobiles, business process management, is what really counts at the automaker."

http://www.bpmi.org/bpmi-library/6B55D935E.Smith-Fingar-March-2003.pdf - Don't bridge the IT-Business Divide: Obliterate it!

http://www-8.ibm.com/events/au/integration/pdf/websphere_business_integration_delivering_bottom_line_impact.pdf

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/integration/ - Business Integration software from IBM

http://www.webandflo.com/ - BPM and Workflow Software from Web and Flo

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-bpelcol1/ - Eight articles about understading BPEL4WS

http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/9445fa5b416f6e32852569ae006bb65f/afd8c0c8589790f285256c2d00028e4a?OpenDocument - Redbook on "Getting Started on Integrating Your Information"

http://www.bpwizard.com/ - provides a BPEL SDK and BPEL Server. Java oriented

MS Biztalk 2004 Beta has BPEL in it: http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/beta/

http://www.grandcentral.com/developers/bpel/index_html - BPEL Developer Center, some good links

http://www.ebpml.org/ - "A website dedicated to Business Process Management Systems & Service Oriented Architectures"

http://www.collaxa.com/home.index.jsp - Collaxa BPEL Server 2.0. Has modeling/connectivity/execution/management

http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/research/patterns/ - Workflow Patterns

http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/research/patterns/flash_animations.htm - Flash animations of various patterns

http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/research/patterns/download/wfs-pat-2002.pdf - A 70 page research paper on workflow patterns

http://www.ibissoft.se/ - IbiSoft, "a company which specializes in the borderland between management and software development". Has some interesting links and white papers.

http://www.business-process-management.info/workflow/workflow.htm - Article discussing how to optimize workflow with busines process management software. Stresses the need for a comprehensive solution, considering the detail oriented nature of workflows and the breadth of knowledge and technology needed to streamline BPM automation.

DataIsAProcess

http://www.pnmsoft.com - PNMsoft BPM & BPML Workflow Software

BPEL4WS - Business Process Execution Language for Web Services

https://www6.software.ibm.com/developerworks/education/ws-bpelws/index.html - A nice introduction, demo, and tutorial of what BPM is all about and it's advantage over using plain old Java/Perl/VB/C++/C#/etc to implement business processes and rules.

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/views/webservices/articles.jsp?sort_order=desc&expand=&sort_by=Date&show_abstract=true&view_by=Search&search_by=BPEL4WS%3A - Understand BPEL4WS, All Columns

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-bpelcol1/ - Understanding BPEL4WS, Part 1

IBM WebSphere Business Integration

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/integration/integrate/ - Business Integration

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/integration/ - Business Integration Overview (Model->Integrate->Connect->Monitor->Manage)

http://www-8.ibm.com/events/au/integration/pdf/websphere_business_integration_delivering_bottom_line_impact.pdf - Continuous Process Improvement

BPM Weblogs

http://radio.weblogs.com/0132036/ - Lehmann Blogger, on BPEL4S, Web Services, and J2EE

http://jmettraux.wordpress.com - J Mettraux, Open WFE

http://workflow.wordpress.com - Craig Cameron workflow blog