August 2005
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
10h 29m
English
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Key BPM Acronymns
BPM is rife with three-letter acronyms (or TLAs). The following list decodes some of the most important terms.
- ACID
Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable; the properties of a transaction
- AWSP
Asynchronous Web Services Protocol
- B2B
Business-to-Business
- BAM
Business Activity Monitoring
- BEIDTF
Business Enterprise Integration Domain Task Force
- BPD
Business Process Diagram
- BPDM
Business Process Definition Metamodel
- BPEL4WS
Business Process Execution Language for Web Services; from the OASIS group
- BPELJ
BPEL for Java
- BPM
Business Process Modeling, sometimes called Business Process Management
- BPDM
Business Process Definition Metamodel
- BPML
Business Process Modeling Language
- BPMN
Business Process Modeling Notation; another specification from BPMI
- BPMI
Business Process Modeling Initiative; an organization, not a specification
- BPRI
Business Process Runtime Interface
- BPQL
Business Process Query Language
- BPSM
Business Process Semantic Model
- BPSS
Business Process Specification System
- BPXL
Business Process Extension Layers
- BRM
Business Rules Management
- BSBR
Business Semantics of Business Rules
- CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
- CWM
Common Warehouse Metamodel
- CWAD
Common workflow audit data
- EAI
Enterprise Application Integration
- ebXML
Electronic business XML
- EDOC
Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
- EJBs
Enterprise JavaBeans
- ER
Entity-relationship
- ESB
Enterprise Service Bus
- ETTK
Emerging Technologies Toolkit; from IBM
- J2EE
Java 2 Enterprise Edition
- JAWE
Java Workflow editor; from Enhydra
- JCA
Java Connector Architecture
- JDBC
Java ...
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