Since BP piece can be delivered via compositions of lower level business services and (fully automated) technical services, the scope of BPM is shrinking more and more. - Michael
________________________________ From: Steve Jones <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 8:59:51 PM Subject: Re: [service-orientated-architecture] BPM and SOA SOA is a conceptual framework to describe and contain the business services of an organisation BPM is about the documentation and potential automation of processes that implement the capabilities of those services. In an SOA RM world it is the BPM piece that can deliver the real-world effect for the capability but it is bounded and constrained by the service. Steve 2009/6/11 Shashank Dutt Jha <shashank.dj@ gmail.com>: > > > hi all, > In one of the new initiative from OMG I could find following brief > explanation differentiating SOA from BPM. Which sounds sensible. > SOA is about capturing business processes and governing the extension of > existing processes to new capabilities. > BPM is about optimizing existing processes, finding opportunities for reuse > and focusing efforts on business targets. > any comments. > Shashank >
