BPM Learning Guide

This SearchSOA.com learning guide introduces you to Business Process Management, or BPM. In this BPM learning guide, you'll find articles, tips, expert advice, white papers and more that will explain how BPM fits into the world of Web services.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
   BPM Quick Start
   BPM Articles
   BPM White Papers
   BPM Products
   References
   More Learning Guides

BPM Quick Start

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• Glossary definition: BPM (Whatis.com)
• Glossary definition: BPM (Wikipedia)
• Glossary definition: BPM (Bitpipe)
• Expert Tip: The difference between BPM and workflow (SearchSOA.com)

BPM Articles

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• Article: Special Report: BPM inside the belly of the SOA whale (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: Special Report: BPM inside the belly of the SOA whale, part 2 (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: Special Report: BPM inside the belly of the SOA whale, part 3 (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: The importance of modeling an SOA (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: BPM skills replacing programmer's skills (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: BPM embedded in every application (Loosely Coupled)
• Article: JBoss integrates its BPM products into its SOA line (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: BEA looks to drive BPM through portals (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: Business and IT need to get cozier in SOA (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: MDA aligns with SOA (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: The four pillars of SOA development, ties to business a key (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: BPM and SOA not being layered together … yet (BPMInstitute.org)
• Article: Why create business services? (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: Entity-centric business services (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: Process-centric business services (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: A service-oriented business process delivery lifecycle (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: Agile business service delivery (SearchSOA.com)
• Article: Google's IT/business alignment (SearchSOA.com)

BPM White Papers

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• White Paper: Rules for Smarter Business Processes (Fair Isaac)
• White Paper: Business Integration: Why it's crucial to your business (SearchSOA.com)
• White Papers: Living up to the business needs that rely on IT infrastructure (SearchSOA.com)
• White Paper: Business process visibility (SearchSOA.com)
• White Paper: How to build a people-powered BPM (SearchSOA.com)
• White Paper: BPM for SAP's NetWeaver (SearchSOA.com)
• White Paper: Fuse your business processes with your portal (SearchSOA.com)
• White Paper: Changing business for the better: A practical guide to BPM (SearchSOA.com)
• White Paper: Using enterprise architecture to align IT and business objectives (SearchSOA.com)

BPM Products

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• Product: jBPM (JBoss)
• Product WebLogic Integration 2.1: BPM (BEA)
• Product AquaLogic BPM Suite (BEA, AquaLogic Business Service Interaction)
• Productl: WebSphere Business Integration Server (IBM)
• Product: TeamWorks Enterprise Edition (Lombardi Software)
• Product: BizTalk Server 2006 (Microsoft)
• Product: BPM Suite (Metastorm)
• Product: Intalio/BPMS (Intalio)

References

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• Webcast: Evaluating a BPM vendor (SearchWebServices.com)
• Standards development: Business process modeling resources (BPMI.org)
• Webcast: Service management: Stop aligning and start contributing (SearchSOA.com)

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