Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services

Process Awareness

Process awareness integration is a strategy as much as a technology, providing your organization with the ability to interact with any number of systems—inside or outside the organization—by integrating entire business processes both within and between enterprises; it is also mandatory.

Indeed, process awareness integration delivers application integration by dealing with several organizations and internal systems, using various metadata, platforms, and processes. Process awareness integration even deals with people and other non-IT-related entities that may participate in a process. Thus, process awareness integration technology must be flexible, providing a translation layer between the source and target systems and the process ...