Ask the Expert

How do Web services achieve Business Process Automation?

How do Web services achieve Business Process Automation? Since not all standards are required to complete a business process, to what extent can we achieve Business Process Automation today?

    Requires Free Membership to View

    Login

Web services really do not solve the BPA problem, just provides application service-based access to remote applications, rather than information which is the predominate approach today.

I'm not sure I understand the second part of your question, but I'm assuming that you are referring to the lack of standards for BPA. Indeed, however, there are a few promising standards emerging including ebXML for B2B collaboration. There are a few emerging around Web services, but it's going to be sometime before a single standard exists. This is the fundamental challenge for application integration moving forward.


This was first published in April 2002

Join the conversationComment

Share
Comments

    Results

    Contribute to the conversation

    All fields are required. Comments will appear at the bottom of the article.
    Back to top