Combining Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture for Better Business Outcomes

BPM methods and tools

In practice, to achieve business process management (BPM) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) synergy you first need a good understanding of the methods and tools for each discipline in isolation, including a well-defined scope for when such methods and tools can and cannot be applied.

In this chapter, we use the BPM variant of IBM Software Services for WebSphere (ISSW) Solution Implementation Standard, referred to as ISIS, as an example of a core BPM method. Although this example is not an exhaustive treatment of BPM methods ...