Key Findings:

• Service-Oriented Process is Key to Meeting Business Agility Requirements
• Service-oriented process includes orchestration, choreography, composition, workflow, transactions, and collaboration of Web Services.
• The market for Service-Oriented Process solutions will grow from $120 Million in 2003 to over $8.3 Billion by 2008.
• The standards landscape will converge on a single choreography, orchestration, and process flow specification in the next 12-18 months.
• By 2005, over 70% of Web Services implementations will be process-driven.
• Services must be developed devoid of process in order that they can participate in an SOA that meets the goals of business agility
• Service-Oriented Management techniques can assist in managing discrete services as well as end-to-end business processes.

Table of Contents:

• I. Report Scope
• II. The Context for Service-Oriented Process
  • 2.1. What are Business Processes?
  • 2.2. Why is Process Important to the Enterprise?
  • 2.3. Connecting Business Requirements to IT Capabilities Through Process
  • 2.4. Organizational Roles and Business Process
• III. Fundamentals of Business Process
  • 3.1. Business Process Terms and Concepts
  • 3.2. Business Process Definition
  • 3.3. Process Execution
  • 3.4. Transactions and Exception Handling
  • 3.5. Process Monitoring and Management
  • 3.6. A History of Business Process Management and Workflow Solutions
• IV. Applying SOA to Business Process: Service-Oriented Process
  • 4.1. Web Services and SOA Approaches for Process Definition and Execution
  • 4.2. Workflow
  • 4.3. Transactions
  • 4.4. Reliability
  • 4.5. Guidance on the Specifications
• V. Connecting the Dots: Process, Management, and Integration
  • 5.1. Proper Mindset for SOA: Process-Orientation
  • 5.2. Asynchrony and Coarse-Granularity: Enabled by Process
  • 5.3. Fulfilling the Requirements for Loose Coupling with Service-Oriented Management
• VI. Market Opportunity for Service-Oriented Process
• VII. Future Trends for Service-Oriented Process
  • 7.1. Smarter Invocation of Services
  • 7.2. Portals and Processes
  • 7.3. Enterprise Applications and Processes
  • 7.4. Processes and Peer-to-Peer Implementations
• VIII. Conclusions
  • 8.1. Key Notes
  • 8.2. Decision Points
  • 8.3. Figures
  • 8.4. Tables
• IX. Glossary
• X. Profiled Vendors

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