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2011 Trends to Watch: Business Process Management & Service Oriented Architecture
Ovum, Nov 2010, Pages: 20
Introduction
The related initiatives of SOA and BPM continue to evolve despite slowed deployments due to financial constraints. Product suites grow in breadth to accommodate advanced analytics, CEP, and governance, while vendor consolidation gathers pace and impacts the number of choices available. Other initiatives such as cloud computing and social media have a direct bearing on expectations of SOA and BPM.
Features and benefits
- Lack of clarity about the roles of SOA and BPM has caused inappropriate use in some instances, and these experiences could deter others.- Merger and acquisition of user organisations and technology vendors has changed the SOA and BPM landscape and caused some re-evaluation of strategies.- Other recent IT initiatives have reduced the focus on SOA and BPM and diluted the investment effort available.
Highlights
BPM retains a high business visibility but without the abstraction and service architecture provided by SOA it is unlikely to deliver its full potential. Avoidance of investment in the design and architecture of services will be detrimental in the long term.Practical experience of delivering SOA and BPM solutions shows the need for several related technologies such as modeling tools, advanced analytics, complex event processing, and governance. The breadth of solution suites seems set to keep on expanding, and this will continue to drive vendor consolidation.
Your key questions answered
- Understand why Ovum believes the roles of BPM and SOA still need to be clarified in the minds of budget holders.- Understand the impact of vendor consolidation on product choice and the broadening of SOA/BPM product suites.- Understand the relevance of SOA and BPM to other IT initiatives such as SaaS, cloud computing, and social media.
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