The evolution of business process modeling

The BPM technology is rapidly evolving as a platform that creates business applications. Processes can now be identified, managed, measured, and aligned to business organizations and functions.

Earlier, industry leaders created their own specifications for business process management without the existence of a standard body. Some of the earlier standards for BPM and organizations responsible for creating those standards are as follows:

  • WSFL: Web Services Flow Language (Created by IBM)
  • XLANG: XML-based extension of Web Services Description Language (Created by Microsoft)
  • BPEL4WS: Business Process Execution Language for web services (Created by Siebel, SAP, IBM, and Microsoft)
  • BPEL4People: WS-BPEL extension ...

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