ZapThink: Report Shows Web Services-based Process to Displace Integration Solutions; Implementing Service-Oriented Process Key to Meeting Business Agility Requirements.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2003 As enterprises apply Service-oriented architecture principles to business process management and automation, they will find that such "Service-Oriented Process" solutions will supplant the need for today's integration solutions, concludes a report published today by ZapThink, LLC, an analyst firm focused on XML, Web Services, and Service-oriented architectures. The report concludes that Service-oriented process tools enable business users to assemble business-oriented Web Services into business processes that are themselves exposed as Web Services. "The success of business depends upon IT systems that are able to deliver functionality that meets business requirements in a flexible, agile way," explains Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink, "Yet most corporate IT infrastructures are littered with a heterogeneous array of systems that perform isolated tasks reasonably well, but fail to fulfill core business requirements. Approaching business process from a Service-oriented perspective enables business requirements to drive IT capabilities in an agile, cost-effective manner." ZapThink's "Service-Oriented Process" report delineates key supporting concepts including: orchestration, choreography, composition, collaboration, coordination, workflow, and transaction; and explains key specifications including: Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS See WSBPEL. ), Business Process Modeling Language (BPML (Business Process Modeling Language) A modeling language for business processes from the Business Process Management Initiative (www.bpmi.org). Unlike eBXML, which is geared to public interfaces, BPML is designed to model private processes. ), Business Process Modeling Notation The Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a standardized graphical notation for drawing business processes in a workflow. BPMN was developed by Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), and is now being maintained by the Object Management Group since the two (BPMN BPMN Business Process Modeling Notation ), Business Transaction Protocol (BTP), Conversation Support for Web Services (CS-WS), ebXML Business Process Specification Schema (BPSS (1) (Business Process Specification Schema) A subset of the UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (UMM) that is used to develop ebXML software. The UMM is used to model business processes and information, but is too generic to be evaluated by ebXML-compliant ), RosettaNet Partner Interface Processes (PIPs), SOAP Conversations, Web Services Choreography Interface (WSCI), Web Services Flow Language (WSFL), WS-Coordination, WS-Transaction, WS-Reliability, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Addressing, Extensible Process Definition Language (XPDL), Microsoft's XLANG (XML LANGuage) An XML-based language for defining business processes from Microsoft. XLANG is used in Microsoft's BizTalk Server and was based on the WSDL language with extensions that describe behavior. See BizTalk Server, WSDL and BPEL. , and the W3C working group on Choreography. Other key findings of the report include: -- The market for Service-Oriented Process solutions will grow from $120 Million in 2003 to over $8.3 Billion by 2008. -- By 2005, over 70% of Web Services implementations will be process-driven. -- The standards landscape will converge on a single choreography, orchestration, and process flow specification in the next 12-18 months. The report profiles several vendors, including Akazi, BEA Systems (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BEAS), Bind Systems, BlazeSoft, Choreology, Collaxa, Commerce One, Digital Evolution, FiveSight, Fuego, Genient, HandySoft, IBM (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM), IDS-Scheer, Intalio, MEGA Systems, Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL), Metastorm, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Oak Grove Systems, Pegasystems, Polar Lake, Popkin Software, Proforma, SAP, Savvion, Sonic Software (NASDAQ: PRGS), and Versata. The report also mentions Action Technologies, Arjuna Technologies, CSC, FileNet, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Informix, Intel, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel Systems, Staffware, Sterling Commerce, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, and TIBCO TIBCO The Information Bus Company . An executive summary of the report and purchasing information is available at the ZapThink Web site (www.zapthink.com). About ZapThink, LLC Founded in October 2000, ZapThink, LLC (http://www.zapthink.com) is an industry research and analysis firm that provides quality, high-value, focused research, analysis, and insight on emerging technologies that will have a high impact on the way business will be run in the future. ZapThink focuses on XML, Web Services, and Service-oriented architectures that provide open, standards-based, loosely-coupled systems and represent an evolutionary advancement in computing and business. ZapThink is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Its customers include Global 1000 firms and emerging businesses. |
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