Business Process Management : The Business face of SOA

Business Process Management (BPM) is the discipline of modelling, automating, managing and optimising business processes to increase business performance. It does this by separating process and business logic from the applications that run them. And it is an area of SOA that Griffiths Waite excels in.

BPM synchronises your business and IT to make the most of change. It breaks down the inflexible, silo-like architectures of the past to deliver more value to the business. You’ll discover a new-found agility that becomes a significant source of competitive advantage. There will no longer be a need to dumb down process design so that IT can deliver; nor will you have to fall back on acquiring standard applications also available to your competitors.

BPM solutions are designed to easily integrate with a company’s existing applications by driving business processes on top of them. With BPM IT is once more the business enabler it was always intended to be.

Business Process Management Lifecycle

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Connecting BPM and SOA

Connecting BPM and SOA allows you to leverage your previous technology investments to deliver adaptive business processes that respond rapidly to changing requirements. SOA unlocks functionality trapped in a company’s existing IT assets and BPM enables the rapid assembly of new processes to support the organisation’s initiatives; delivering the visibility and control that enterprises need to optimise their operations.

Together, BPM and SOA facilitate greater re-use of IT assets, faster delivery of value to the business, and greater adaptability to support ongoing change. Companies are freed from the changing demands of business and the changing trends of technology – maximising long-term IT investment.