The Open Mashup Alliance for Enterprise Mashups. Open Source Integration for SaaS Applications. YAWL: Yet Another Workflow Language. Workflow Patterns. BPM Design Guide. Gartner Inc. analysts predicts the convergence of SOA and business process management (BPM) and advised companies to align their BPM and SOA initiatives now to increase chances of becoming a leader by 2010.
Also, they say beginning in 2007, BPM will become the driver for SOA implementations. I have seen confirmation of Gartner’s prediction in my SOA practice in that as SOA matures there has been a shift from integration style projects, to business process automation and optimization using BPM with SOA. BPM projects often require SOA for integration as a foundational layer for service orchestration. The power of BPM is exponentially increased with SOA by not just automating the human interactions but also the human-to-system, system-to-system, and company-to-company processes.
Workflow Research. Orbeon Forms - Web Forms for the Enterprise, Done the Right Way. Intalio, Leader in Open Source BPMS. Apache ActiveMQ.