INTERNET WORLD -- In reaction to today's persistently downturned economy, resourceful business technology leaders are turning to Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) as a promising path back to desperately needed gains in productivity.
BPMS is a single, unified modeling, integration, and execution environment that can be applied to the implementation of literally any business process. Writing for the Internet World online magazine, BPMS experts Howard Smith and Peter Fingar describe BPMS as an "engine for processes." The BPMS they say "provides the mechanisms to stitch application components together to automate and share strategic and operational business processes, in a manageable and flexible way." Much in the way that the Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) enables the sharing of business data among applications and companies (using a common language known as SQL), the BPMS enables the sharing of business processes (using a common language known as BPQL). Smith and Fingar go on to explain that "the BPMS separates out functional components from traditional packaged applications in much the same way that the database management system separates out data from applications into a shared repository to better manage their use." Business Process Management bis expected to become the business platform of choice for Global 2000 organizations, and the BPMS will be its technology engine.
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