BPM Convergence: Workflow And Integration Meet In The Middle

The traditional best-of-breed approach to deploying business software in the enterprise has led to islands of functionality, some delivering business system integration, some reporting, and others workflow management. There is increase pressure from the business to pull these stove-piped applications into one enterprise-level business process management (BPM) view. The end goal is to minimize the number of manual interactions in each process, increasing the throughput of business transactions. At the same time, businesses want better visibility into process data and more flexibility in modeling and optimizing workflow.

Business Process Management (BPM) offerings have traditionally been focused on one of two areas of the enterprise: integration or workflow. Business integration products pull data from a variety of back-end business systems and make them available to other applications, while workflow products provide process modeling, automation, and monitoring.

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