BPM & SOA: The "What" and the "How" in Business Transformation

At Fujitsu, we believe that BPM and SOA are joined at the proverbial hip. Let's use the example of a large financial institution that wanted to automate its process for opening brokerage accounts so as to reduce the error rates resulting from manually processing these accounts. "What" this company did to increase the accuracy, productivity, and cost-effectiveness of this business process is considered Business Process Management. How do you implement a BPM solution so that you can flexibly access a myriad of back-end systems inside and outside the organization to support this business process? The "How" to implement is what SOA is all about. SOA consists of creating standards-based reusable components that benefit multiple applications across the organization.

SOA Governance and Management - The "Glue" In Business Transformation

As the number of reusable components such as Web Services mushroom, the ability to easily discover, manage, monitor and analyze the use of these components has become critical. You can't reuse what you can't find. Enter the need for SOA Governance and Management solutions. These offerings serve as "stores" for reusable components created inside and outside the enterprise. The chief benefit of these solutions lie in their ability to easily search for and reuse the components and to quickly understand the impact on other applications should you decide to make changes to any of them. This SOA store serves as the DNA for your enterprise.

The Sum Of It All: BPM, SOA & SOA Governance For Architected Business Transformations

The end goal of any BPM initiative is to improve the communication and processes within an enterprise to help deliver superior products and services to its end customers. By taking a service-oriented approach, a company begins to foster a culture of building with the future in mind – identifying components that can be reused across the enterprise. The use of a SOA Governance and Management solution augments a company's ability to be able to flexibly respond to business change. With a central store of reusable components, companies are now equipped to quickly compose new applications that meet the immediate needs of the business more accurately.