Summary

In this chapter, we provided an overview of different aspects of BPM and its adoption in a company. Currently, interest in BPM is quite high, resulting in a lot of BPM-related activities by software vendors, analysts, consulting companies, industry organizations, and end-user communities. Thus, it is expected that BPM as a discipline is likely to mature rapidly in the near future. From BPM technology and solution architecture points of view, we are likely to see a greater use of collaboration and social media, E2.0-style portals as the face of BPM applications, the leveraging of events to manage processes as well as to derive additional value from process transaction, and increased adoption of SOA-enabled BPM. Also, contemporary momentum around cloud computing will impact the way BPM tools and engines are developed, packaged, sold, and used.