Karl Treier is the chief technology officer at Bluespring Software (www.bluespringsoftware.com). Karl is a 20-year veteran of the IT industry and has performed a broad range of classic leadership roles in development, architecture and product management, though it was his early customer-facing roles in training and support that have inspired a customer-centric development methodology that has translated into a world-class BPM product, built on the Microsoft .NET platform. Karl is a graduate of Wakefield College in England and also holds numerous industry certifications, including MCSD, MCSE, SCJP, and CCNA.
The use of the term BPM (business process management) is becoming
increasingly confused as former EAI vendors claim BPM capability and the
lines between BPM + SOA and ESB applications are blurred. This article will
differentiate what is unique and distinct about BPM compared to other
technologies such as EAI (enterprise application integration) and ESB
(enterprise service bus), and it will also attempt to characterize what
exactly constitutes a Business Process as opposed to an Application
Integration, Web Service Orchestration, or Data Translation problem. All the
while we will be remembering and focusing on the fact that the "B" in BPM
stands for Business.
Enterprise Application vendors who are keen to preserve the
revenue-generating capabilities of their offerings and who are also keen to
grow market share have historically recategorized themselves with emerging... (more)
Karl Treier is the chief technology officer at Bluespring Software (www.bluespringsoftware.com). Karl is a 20-year veteran of the IT industry and has performed a broad range of classic leadership roles in development, architecture and product management, though it was his early customer-facing roles in training and support that have inspired a customer-centric development methodology that has translated into a world-class BPM product, built on the Microsoft .NET platform. Karl is a graduate of Wakefield College in England and also holds numerous industry certifications, including MCSD, MCSE, SCJP, and CCNA.
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