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- bpel4People advances toward the mainstream
- BPEL Business Process Execution Language is too machine-oriented, catering to applications talking to other applications, they say. Most business processes need the human touch somewhere along the line. Do people need BPEL4People? Consider these un-automatable scenarios: A process may need an executive's approval to...
- Tags: Business Process, BPEL, Workflow, OASIS, Bottom Line, BPEL4People, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Web Services, Business Operations, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Making bpel Processes Dynamic
- In most basic process designs, partner links are static; they refer to a single external process selected by the developer at design time. This approach is appropriate for highly targeted or constrained systems. However, in larger systems business processes are more complex. They interact with multiple external services and define...
- Tags: Partnership, BPEL, Partner Link, Business Structures, Business Process Automation, Finance, It Operations
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Building a Web Services Network With bpel
- The ESA has built its entire collaborative network with agility in mind. Interface relationships have been flexibly defined to facilitate easier adoption and rapid evolution. Its use of BPEL domains to offer an independent workspace offers massive flexibility to the service providers; providers can modify their business processes without affecting...
- Tags: Web, BPEL, ESA, Business Process Automation, Web Services, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Testing bpel in the Real World
- This paper describes how to test a BPEL process by using the Oracle BPEL Test Framework. This framework, part of Oracle BPEL Process Manager, provides a way to create and execute a set of repeatable tests on a BPEL process. In addition, this paper also offers some best practices borrowed...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., BPEL, Business Process Automation, Web Services, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-11-01
- 2007 Comparative Assessment Methodology Process for bpel
- By following the BPEL standard, the choice of which BPEL engine to use should not affect interoperability of the orchestrated services or the reuse of the BPEL models or designs. As DoD moves toward Net Centricity and Services-Based and Service-Oriented Architectures SOAs, the use of BPEL for composition and orchestration...
- Tags: BPEL, Business Process Automation, Web Services, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-09-11
- bpel for Windows Workflow Foundation March CTP (exe)
- Provides developers with support for building applications using Windows Workflow Foundation and BPEL. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: BPEL, Business Process Automation, Microsoft Windows, Web Services, It Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software
- Software downloads 2007-08-30
- Jump-Start Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), Part 7: Implement Duration Metrics in WebSphere Monitor 6.0.2 - Put Your Durations Back Into Your bpel Models
- How efficient is the current business process implementation? One of the defining metrics for analyzing business process performance is the time factor, or duration. A business process is generally a series of activities to fulfill a business transaction. If one doesn't know the transaction time or how long it takes...
- Tags: Business Process, IBM WebSphere, BPEL, IBM Corp., Operational Planning, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-07-31
- Transforming Business Models to bpel With WebSphere Business Modeler 6.02
- IBM WebSphere Business Modeler hereafter called Modeler is a powerful tool for business analysts to accurately model their unique business processes. In addition, after the model is complete, they can export it to WS-BPEL. By generating useful artifacts for I/T, the business-driven development cycle saves time and ensures that the...
- Tags: IBM WebSphere, BPEL, IBM Corp., Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-06-27
- Emersion Immerses Itself in bpel for Rapid Provisioning of Services Solution
- Wholesale Communications Group WCG spent 15 months developing a billing and operational support system to replace existing internal systems. As it became apparent to the WCG board that the system could be marketed to customers as a solution to their billing, provisioning, payment, and client management needs, Emersion was created...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Provisioning, BPEL, Emersion, Emersion Software, 3G, Portals, Business Process Automation, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, It Operations
- Case studies 2007-05-01
- Optus Boosts Speed to Market, Streamlines Provisioning Process With bpel Solution
- Optus is the second-largest telecommunications provider in Australia and a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore's SingTel Group. One of the company's key business offerings is premium Short Message Services SMS, whereby an external party can obtain a number or short code on the Optus network for competitions, promotions, or content...
- Tags: Optus, Provisioning, BPEL
- Case studies 2007-04-01
- Microsoft applies bpel to Windows Workflow; analysts scratch their heads
- Microsoft applies BPEL to Windows Workflow; analysts scratch their headsHeadscratchersBPEL is a simple service orchestration language, nothing more. Expecting an orchestration language to fulfill BPM requirements is like trying to push a square peg into s round hole.
- Tags: Business process automation, Web services, BPEL, Windows Workflow, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-01
- Microsoft applies bpel to Windows Workflow; analysts scratch their heads
- Microsofts Paul Andrew made it official on his blog: Microsoft will be supporting BPEL, Business Process Execution Language, as early as this month. According to Andrew, "in March 2007, Microsoft plans to release a CTP [Community Technology Preview] of a set of BPEL activities for Windows Workflow Foundation WF. This...
- Tags: Standards Watch, Vendor Watch, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Opes Prime Creates New Financial Services Product in Five Months With Standards-Based bpel Solution
- Opes Prime Stockbroking Limited is a specialist provider of securities lending and equity financing services, with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, and Singapore. This service has proven very successful, leading Opes Prime to plan to provide online, real-time stock loans to retail investors. The company quickly realized the manual processes it...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Stock, Financial Service, BPEL, Stock Loan, Standards, Investment, Finance
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- More SOA-open source convergence: Sun upgrades NetBeans
- A new report indicates that Sun Microsystems plans to include SOA functionality within the next release of the NetBeans IDE, and will be extended for other languages besides Java.NetBeans is an open-source IDE -- under Sun's stewardship -- that competes with the open-source Eclipse development tools platform. Surveys I have...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun NetBeans, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-10-23
- Business Process Management and WS-bpel 2.0: What's Next for SOA Orchestration?
- Customer business processes span services and human activities; these processes need to be orchestrated in an agile fashion with end-to-end control, visibility, and rich exception management. Business Process Execution Language, commonly known as BPEL or WS-BPEL, is an XML based standard markup language that is emerging as the answer to...
- Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., BPM, Industry, SOA, BPEL, Business Process Automation, Web Services, Operational Planning, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-10-01
- bpel bopped, for the umpteenth time
- The world has been having a love/hate relationship with BPEL -- Business Process Execution Language. It is seen as the glue that will make all the moving parts of SOA work together, but often criticized as laden with vendor extensions and lacking flexibility. BPEL 1.1 never...
- Tags: BPEL
- Blog posts 2006-09-29
- Microsoft: oops, here's three more Web services patents
- Earlier this week, we and many other sites across the industry reported on Microsoft's announcement that it was freeing up patents related to 35 Web services, mainly an assortment of key WS-* specs, along with the widely used SOAP and WSDL standards. Now, make that 38.A reliable...
- Tags: Web service, BPEL, Jorgen Thelin
- Blog posts 2006-09-15
- ESB University Course 2: An Introduction to SOA Process Orchestration and Top Down Service Design
- The second session of Cape Clear's ESB University focuses on Business Process Management BPM and SOA, using a business example. You'll learn how BPEL Business Process Execution Language and SOA fit together and how to successfully convert services into a business process. What you will learn during...
- Tags: Business Process, Cape Clear Software, Enterprise Service Bus, SOA, BPEL, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), It Operations, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2006-08-16
- Another bop at bpel; What's bpel4People?
- Another bop at BPEL; What's BPEL4People?Get your facts straight ...BPMN stands for Business Process [b}Modeling[/b] Notation, it was first developed at BPMI.org, which toward the end of last year merged with the OMG. And it is not BPMN that is the standard that will make BPEL irrelevant, it is the...
- Tags: Business process automation, Web services, Human Interaction, Joe, BPEL, BPMN, BPDM, business process
- Discussion threads 2006-06-19
- Another bop at bpel; What's bpel4People?
- Is Business Process Execution Language executable? Is it a language? David Chappell doesn't like BPEL, and he makes his disdain for Business Process Execution Language known in a new post at his site. "I'm not convinced that BPEL has much of a future as an executable language," says the well-known...
- Tags: BPEL
- Blog posts 2006-06-18
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