Abstract:
A Business Process Management (BPM) engine is an automated consumer of services. How is this type of consumer different from other consumers such as user interfaces? Will you be able to re-use the services you have exposed in your SOA to date? What additional characteristics might the service need to provide to be fit for use by an automated business process. This presentation uses a proven structured approach to analysing the interface characteristics required by a BPM based service consumer using a technique from a forthcoming developerworks article.