BPEL News

BPEL and Job Schedulers are both relevant even as IT infrastructures migrate to real time services-based processing.    This article will explain how BPEL and job schedulers (most recently branded as Workload Automationsuites) provide an integrated solution that can satisfy the needs of batch and real time processing in a services-orientated infrastructure.... 

Professionals all over the world in Information Technology are fighting the never ending battle against project creep, missed deadlines and cost overruns. The lack of success in doing so seems to indicate that there is a deeper problem that has to be solved first. After analyzing customer projects for 20 years, I may have discovered a key element... 

The main goal of a Business Architecture is to enable the business to improve customer service quality through a better transparency, flexibility and adaptability of business operations. The market environment changes more rapidly and the use of technology by customers dramatically influences how a business can operate. Financial services calculation... 

I just read an invitation to ‘the most comprehensive, current and pragmatic BPM seminar in the world’. The host is claimed to be the most experienced and highly-rated seminar facilitator and author in the enterprise BPM field, who supposedly ‘developed more agile process-based business architectures and process models that will scale and adapt’... 

The methodology of Enterprise Integration has advanced to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) because of its ability to weave disparate applications and services to produce a business structure where data can flow as a business process. Environments have been built over time with diverse layers of applications. The development time and maintenance... 

‘Oh, no!’ you might think. ‘Another one who wants to shove SOA as a means for corporate agility down my throat …’. Relax, nothing could be more wrong. In short, I am certain that SOA does not improve corporate agility, rather the opposite. The problem is that SOA represent a prevailing vision in the eloquent diction of Thomas Sowell’s...