Microsoft Forms Business Process Alliance, Develops BPM Roadmap

Came across this article...

Microsoft
Forms Business Process Alliance, Develops BPM Roadmap:

"Microsoft is honing
in on business process management with the formation of the Microsoft Business
Process Alliance and the release of a BPM roadmap that will include a key
standard—Business Process Execution Language—in the Windows Workflow Foundation. "

The way Microsoft plans to lower the cost of BPM is by integrating those
technologies companies need to automate processes on its BPM platform.

That platform is composed primarily of BizTalk Server, which has
capabilities for system-centric processes and rules, and Office SharePoint
Server 2007 that has human-to-human and human-to-system capabilities through
document collaboration, workflow design (in the SharePoint Designer) and through
its integration with the 2007 Office System that includes Word and Excel.
The other areas Microsoft wants to bring to the table through the Business
Process Alliance—based on recommendations from users—are process modeling,
analysis, business rules management, human-centric workflow, process simulation
and SOA (service-oriented architecture) life-cycle management.