Business Process: at the heart of SOA (IT-Analysis)

It is becoming increasingly clear that without a clear focus on business process, a service oriented architecture cannot be useful without a business process management infrastructure. Since a true SOA plan requires that business services be created that are independent of each other, it is imperative that there be a mechanism in place to enable these components to be linked together. Many of the products that we have seen over the years have taken either a very tactical top-down or bottoms-up approach to creating processes.