“In the good ol’ days, integration and business process were separate things,” said Ron Schmelzer, a senior analyst at ZapThink LLC in Waltham, Mass. “We did EAI as one activity and BPM as another. However, SOA [service-oriented architecture] unites the concepts of integration and process.” Schmelzer sees the industry-wide interest in SOA leading to unification of architecture, integration, and process.

Schmelzer continued, “Many of the so-called ESB vendors are adding process orchestration capabilities to their products and BPM vendors are increasingly service-enabling their offerings. It’s just a matter of time before all the major platform vendors offering SOA capabilities will also have process capabilities.”

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