BPM/SOA Consortium Overview
The BPM/SOA Consortium is an advocacy group comprised of
practitioners, service providers and technology vendors
dedicated to promoting the business value, and enabling the
successful adoption, of Business Process Management (BPM) and
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by the Global 1000, major
government agencies and midmarket businesses.
The BPM/SOA Consortium is a practice area community under the
Business Ecology™ Initiative (BEI). BEI provides education,
advocacy and member programs to enable organizations to achieve
Business Ecology success, employ Actionable Architecture™, and
carve a path to business-IT integration.
Business Ecology is a business-technology imperative focused
on streamlining business processes, removing waste from
technology portfolios, and adjusting resource consumption, to
optimize business operations and foster business innovation.
The BPM/SOA Consortium is a newly expanded community,
connecting the members and sponsors of the SOA and BPM
Consortiums, to focus on business optimization.
The 2010 merger of the SOA
and BPM Consortiums is based on the following premises:
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When the SOA Consortium began, Service
Oriented Architecture was more of a fringe methodology
that only a few organizations were doing with any great
success, rather than an accepted part of an overall
business strategy. Three years later, corporations large
and small use the principles of SOA to enhance their
overall business and technology strategies. |
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A well-implemented Service Oriented
Architecture leads to streamlined technology portfolios,
improved resource sharing, better defined business
capabilities, and ease of capability introduction or
change. |
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A well-implemented Business Process
Management initiative leads to greater business agility,
faster productivity and improved customer interactions for
all stakeholders. |
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The combined use of Service Oriented
Architecture and Business Process Management results in an
optimized business environment that is change-friendly,
and poised for business innovation. |
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Business and information technology
professionals must collaborate to realize the highest
yielding benefits of Business Process Management and
Service Oriented Architecture. |
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Enterprise and government practitioners
would benefit greatly from a vibrant practitioner
community to exchange insights on use cases, challenges
and techniques, related to Service Oriented Architecture
and Business Process Management, used individually, or
combined. |
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Business Process Management and Service
Oriented Architecture, individually and combined, enable
Business Ecology. |
Goals & Objectives:
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Shift the conversation from competing
strategies to combined business value (business
optimization) |
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Provide education on business analysis,
process design, governance, performance measurement and
implementation techniques to combine Service Oriented
Architecture and Business Process Management for business
optimization |
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Showcase Business Process Management and
Service Oriented Architecture success stories, benefit
realization, best practices and lessons learned |
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Raise the Business IQ of information
technology professionals and Tech-Savvy of business
professionals to realize the greatest business value from
Business Process Management, Service Oriented Architecture
and business-technology |
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Create a vibrant practitioner community for
the exchange of insights on use cases, challenges and
techniques, which will assist in value attainment, and
spur broader, industry-wide Service Oriented Architecture
and Business Process Management adoption |
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