Business-Oriented Architecture: Combining BPM and SOA for Competitive Advantage

The benefits that a SOA provides – simplification, flexibility, consistency, ease of change, encapsulation – will help IT groups implement process improvement. Leading companies recognize that they also need to deploy Business Process Management (BPM) technology and practices to enable process improvement.

In this paper, we will discuss these benefits in more detail and show how leading companies have recognized that implementing BPM and SOA together gives them unique capabilities.