Posted on Friday, April 24th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
BPM + SOA = Serious Corporate Cost Cutting Potential
IT Business Edge
This is just the common sense approach to using SOA to improve application integration, thereby reducing maintenance and support costs within IT and reducing duplicate data entry and errors for the end-users. And using SOA to improve business processes to reduce labor costs and improve productivity is the next step after integration — end-to-end process automation most often requires integrated systems. Previously, if you wanted to do BPM, you just had to do a lot of custom code, according to Sandy Kemsley, a BPM consultant and Column 2.0 blogger. But if you’ve built a service-oriented architecture, or really just service-enabled your applications, then you can cut out all that nasty integration work and just have your BPM tool call, or consume, the services instead, as Kemsley explained in a March on-demand webinar.
