The Business of Process Integration

Abstract

Imagine if you didn't have common electric outlets and plugs in your house, and every time you bought a new appliance, you had to wire up the appliance to the wires in your wall. And everybody's wires in everybody's walls were different. And everybody's appliance wiring was different. That's really the way it works today with trying to integrate business software applications. Paul Margolis, founder of the Open Applications Group.

The paper describes the value of application integration and the place of business process management. It focuses on the duet BPM-SOA as the successful solution to build the adaptive enterprise of the near future.

Keywords: integration, ERP, enterprise applications, Business Process Management (BPM), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

JEL Classification: O33