Service-Oriented Process

Key Findings:

  • Service-Oriented Process is Key to Meeting Business Agility Requirements
  • Service-oriented process includes orchestration, choreography, composition, workflow, transactions, and collaboration of Web Services.
  • The market for Service-Oriented Process solutions will grow from $120 Million in 2003 to over $8.3 Billion by 2008.
  • The standards landscape will converge on a single choreography, orchestration, and process flow specification in the next 12-18 months.
  • By 2005, over 70% of Web Services implementations will be process-driven.
  • Services must be developed devoid of process in order that they can participate in an SOA that meets the goals of business agility
  • Service-Oriented Management techniques can assist in managing discrete services as well as end-to-end business processes.

Table of Contents:

  • I. Report Scope
  • II. The Context for Service-Oriented Process
    • 2.1. What are Business Processes?
    • 2.2. Why is Process Important to the Enterprise?
    • 2.3. Connecting Business Requirements to IT Capabilities Through Process
    • 2.4. Organizational Roles and Business Process
  • III. Fundamentals of Business Process
    • 3.1. Business Process Terms and Concepts
    • 3.2. Business Process Definition
    • 3.3. Process Execution
    • 3.4. Transactions and Exception Handling
    • 3.5. Process Monitoring and Management
    • 3.6. A History of Business Process Management and Workflow Solutions
  • IV. Applying SOA to Business Process: Service-Oriented Process
    • 4.1. Web Services and SOA Approaches for Process Definition and Execution
    • 4.2. Workflow
    • 4.3. Transactions
    • 4.4. Reliability
    • 4.5. Guidance on the Specifications
  • V. Connecting the Dots: Process, Management, and Integration
    • 5.1. Proper Mindset for SOA: Process-Orientation
    • 5.2. Asynchrony and Coarse-Granularity: Enabled by Process
    • 5.3. Fulfilling the Requirements for Loose Coupling with Service-Oriented Management
  • VI. Market Opportunity for Service-Oriented Process
  • VII. Future Trends for Service-Oriented Process
    • 7.1. Smarter Invocation of Services
    • 7.2. Portals and Processes
    • 7.3. Enterprise Applications and Processes
    • 7.4. Processes and Peer-to-Peer Implementations
  • VIII. Conclusions
    • 8.1. Key Notes
    • 8.2. Decision Points
    • 8.3. Figures
    • 8.4. Tables
  • IX. Glossary
  • X. Profiled Vendors