[comment] CIO article - March 2004 - BPM - A model student

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Dear Sirs,

 

While the article gave a good view it did steer readers wrong on

a couple of points.

 

First BPEL for web services was noted as "sharing them with

disparate business units, partners and external customers,

BPEL may be the way to go".

 

In fact BPEL is designed to code lowlevel business process

execution steps - in lieu of coding Java instead (BEA and IBM

just produced a white paper on BPEL and Java for

programmers this week).

 

Not too many organizations would feel comfortable sharing

source code with external customers and partners in this way.

 

Therefore - BPEL really is focused inside your own firewall -

not outside it.

 

However - the second point is that OASIS itself is already

developing other specifications along with BPEL that ARE

designed to be used by external partners to share

and model business processes - and these are the

OASIS BPSS, OASIS CAM and OASIS CPA specifications -

that allow you to define the big picture steps, information

exchanges and business agreements.

 

Thanks, DW.