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By DAVID McGOVERAN
BPMS Concepts, Part 6
aving discussed the goals, tasks, benefits, pon- ing. No BPMS product has packaged all ponents
ents of a Business Process Management System described in this series, but panies patible
H(BPMS) earlier in this series, it’s time to bring it all product roadmaps (see the list at ).
together. Besides summarizing the high-anization of a You and anization can use the information in this series
BPMS, we’ll consider the necessary methodologies and the as a high-level guide to evaluating BPMS product maturity and
acquisition of a BPMS. the maturity of the vendor’s BPMS vision.
The many ponents of a BPMS (see my last Until you can find mature BPMS products, you may need to
three columns) can be understood conceptually as belonging purchase multiple products and use them in a semi-integrated
to four groups. In summary, these are: fashion. For example, off-the-shelf process management facil-
ities with acceptable utility exist today, but may not yet be tight-
• Process management facilities — process engine, distrib- ly integrated with business console facilities or with external
uted process coordinator, resource manager, scheduler, audit resource management facilities. bination of import/
manager, error manager, security and policy manager, repos- export of repository information, disciplined methodolo