A Conceptual Model of SOA-Enabled Business Process and its Empirical Study

Soa And Bpm Working In Tandem

SOA and BPM are two essential topics of enterprise information systems (EIS). Many enterprises make investments to adopt them. Both of them should be considered together because they are working in tandem to achieve better EIS. While SOA provides technical requirements for EIS like software components, operational resources, and distributed computing; BPM fulfills the needs arising from the business like business processes, their workflows, and their activity monitoring. SOA provides such IT architecture to manage business process in a higher mature process.

In today’s complex systems, unlike the old style of software which run locally, EIS is becoming more heterogeneous and distributed due to need of integrating various applications and systems. Not only dependency on other systems but also separation of tasks into sub-tasks and running them on separate platforms that have distinct physical resources also call this situation. Before WWW, implementing such a distributed system was quite expensive because it required special infrastructure like electronic data interchange (EDI). After the invention of WWW, every single computer can easily become a node in the biggest network which is the internet where no special platform is required.