The Next 50 Years

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“If end-to-end business processes are the focus of internal and cross-company integration, why not deal directly with the “business process, as application” instead of “data” and “applications”? Because business processes can no longer be cast in concrete the way they are in today’s applications, the “business process” must supersede the “application” as a means of packaging software. In addition, companies must leverage existing IT investments as they build new process-aware information systems that understand the enterprise process design right across the value chain. Companies are demanding a breakthrough that shifts the locus of automation from the affairs of IT to the affairs of the business. They want to shift their efforts from further automating integration to make up for the limitations of IT, and move on to managing business processes. That breakthrough is the methodology of BPM and its technology engine-the business process management system (BPMS).

The third wave of business process management of which we speak is not business process reengineering (BPR), enterprise application integration, workflow management or another packaged application-it’s the synthesis and extension of all these technologies and techniques into a unified whole. This unified whole becomes a new foundation upon which the enterprise is built, an enterprise more in tune with the true nature of business processes and their management.”

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