The Click-and-Drag ENTERPRISE

摘要

The intersection between business and it is where the action is. It's the point where business requirements morph into enterprise systems. It's where consultants and software vendors make money. And it's where most big IT problems begin - or dissolve before they gum up the works. BPM (business process management) seeks to impose order on the chaotic crossroads between business and technology. A BPM system - software that combines graphical process modeling with application development to exploit an existing EAI fabric - encourages both sides to get their ducks in a row. Business analysts must rationalize and ultimately optimize workflow by parsing and describing the processes underlying business functions, and IT must get its EAI act together so that the existing application functionality necessary to create process-based apps can be stitched together across the enterprise.