I just joined in another fast forum on eBizQ with a good question posed by uber-SOA blogger Joe McKendrick:
"There has always been a huge cultural divide between the business
folks, who felt that they own BPM, versus the IT folks, who own the
architecture or the technology architecture, which would be SOA. So
do you think BPM and SOA are going to merge, and if so, how soon?"
Judging by the rapid-fire responses alone, I can tell this strikes a nerve with lots of the experts. I can certainly understand the concern about yet more redefinition and lumping together of terms that aren't really related. However, I don't see this confusion as a problem in practice as much as others might.
In our experience the most successful SOA implementations are being driven at a high level by a BPM process, even if we aren't talking about directly connecting a process engine with a SOA registry for instance. It isn't going to happen overnight, but the SOA implementations without business process orientation will die out and be replaced by business-process driven SOA, which the business can justify budgetary considerations for.
Anyway, yet another good conversation and I invite you to take a look.
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