Abstract
Business process management (BPM) is a key concern for both business and IT
people, although many are confused as to what exactly BPM is and how to
implement it. The confusion is compounded by the many claims vendors make
about BPM standards. Many currently focus on WS-BPEL (Web Services Business
Process Execution Language - usually shortened to BPEL). To help them our
report entitled ' BPEL: not quite there yet' provides an overview of what BPEL
is and how it is evolving.
However, it provides only a partial picture of the current situation; it is
not possible to understand the impact that BPEL will have on the BPM market
without understanding the wider BPM standards context and its evolution. At
that level, things are still in a remarkable state of flux, which confuses
vendors, users, and unfortunately many analysts. It is, nonetheless, not only
possible but also necessary to put all the pieces together to understand the
big picture and its impact on vendor and user strategies. Hence, this report
puts BPEL in a wider perspective and defines how BPEL relates to other
standards such as the Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN), Unified
Modelling Language (UML), Business Process Definition Meta-model (BPDM) and
XML Process Definition Language (XPDL).
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