A current challenge to integrate business process models developed in ARIS and implemented in BEA Aqualogic (or any combo BP modeling and BP implementation platforms) may benefit from understanding Oracle's Business Process Outlines approach, as explained by Bruce at the BPMS Watch blog. Bruce tries to explain how Oracle's Business Process Outline attempts to keep Business Process Models designed in their Business Process Analysis (BPA) suite (their implementation of the IDS-Scheer ARIS tool) in sync with what I call Implementation models in their SOA Suite.
"...a problem with BPEL in BPM has always been keeping the executable design in sync with the business analyst’s model once the developer has taken a whack at it — the notorious roundtripping problem. Oracle has solved that here with the Business Process Outline - a model that sits in between BPA (ARIS) and BPEL, with unambiguous mappings to both, and intelligible to business as well as IT."
I wonder if some of this approach will flow back into the ARIS product and be generic enough for other BPM implementation platforms to adopt.
Posted by outlawv at December 28, 2006 11:35 AM