For several years running, CIOs and IT executives continue to place business process improvement as the top business priority for their IT organization. This has led to a renewed focus on core business processes – how they are performed today, how they can be improved and how quickly they can be changed. Leading IT groups are recognizing that they also need to deploy Business Process Management (BPM) technology and practices to enable process improvement. They recognize that enabling their business teams with BPM will give their company a competitive advantage in driving process improvement.

In this paper, we will discuss these benefits in more detail and show how leading companies have recognized that implementing BPM and SOA together gives them unique capabilities. However, before reviewing the benefits, it is important to understand what a combined BPM and SOA.