Integrating BPM and SOA: The Emerging Role of OMG and MDA

by Michael Guttman, John H. Parodi

Business process modeling (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) began as two separate movements, but because end users want an integrated end-to-end solutioning process, not multiple disjointed solutioning paradigms, now they need to converge. This Executive Report by Michael K. Guttman and John H. Parodi focuses on how the Object Management Group is leveraging Model Driven Architecture as a catalyst for unifying these two very popular approaches to automating business systems.