BEA® WebLogic Platform 7

Chapter 34. Business and Workflow Process Management Using WLI

In This Chapter

• Introduction

• Business Process Management (BPM)

• Stages in Business Process Management

• Designing Business Processes

• BPM Tools

• Programming Using BPM APIs

• BPM Plug-in Framework

• Workflow Patterns

Introduction

A business process is a series of interconnected business activities involving various systems, applications, manual interventions, and other processes. Business processes now span across the enterprise boundaries through business-to-business (B2B) and collaborative commerce.

Business Process Management (BPM) is a term that encompasses management support for core activities of an enterprise, incorporating the technologies for workflow synchronization and execution and Application ...