SOA and BPM are two of the most talked-about business initiatives: both promise to help companies create new value from existing investments, reuse efforts across many projects, and achieve new levels of agility. But where SOA focuses on creating a more flexible architecture, BPM applies that architecture to optimize the way actual work gets done. Download this complimentary white paper now to discover SOA’s relationship with BPM, including the impact BPM has on SOA -and vice-versa.

This Research Brief highlights a selection of the findings from BPMInstitute.org’s State of BPM^SM survey. It reviews the challenges associated with automating government processes such as correspondence tracking, case management, project management and permit applications that involve integration with a variety of information systems. Many government business transformation initiatives involve replacing a manual, paper-based process with an automated, electronic document-based one.

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) broke onto the scene three or four years ago, stimulated by the growing interest in Business Process Management (BPM), which made it possible to understand more clearly the relationship between real-time IT operations and business activities. Global 2000 companies, among others, have achieved significant return on investment (ROI) by using BAM as a real-time, intervention-focused tool for measuring and managing business processes.

Part 2: A manager’s guide for application and implementation of the Innovation Cycle

Innovation is currently a hot topic in the executive suite and in business publications. Amid the buzz, managers are uncertain about how to reconcile the seemingly opposing calls for increased innovation and bottom-line productivity. As a result, when challenged to grow their businesses they often default to more familiar options, even if growth through innovation could be the best choice. We propose not only a truce between the creative and analytic sides of business, but also a highly valuable method for collaboration that builds upon the strengths of each to maximize the value of innovation investments.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a hot topic, but what does it mean for your enterprise? Most SOA discussions have focused on the technical aspects versus the role of technology to support business processes. Business processes can be accelerated by using special process design and analysis tools, but there are often significant gaps when implementing the business processes to support the IT landscape.

This white paper illustrates how technical services can be derived from business processes and orchestrated through SOA.