BPM for SOA

"BPM Training: so what are SOA, BPEL, and service orchestration 'really' about? At this point in their evolutionary cycle, they are really about enabling developers to build all types of applications faster and with less coding."

BPM for SOA - 3 days

Business Process Management and SOA

Our BPM training positions BPM as enabler for SOA. Although SOA is not specific to BPM software, there are a number of natural synergies between BPM and SOA. Perhaps most obvious of these is the separation of business process management as an independent function, allowing processes to be designed independently of any single application and leveraged as shared business logic.

While most of the attention focused on SOA has been largely dominated by Web services, it is important to realize that these standards are merely one of the means to an end and not the end game itself. The true value of SOA comes from the ability to orchestrate these components across executable business processes.

At course completion, students will be able to: 

• Use Model-based definition: BPM promotes model-based definitions, which will ensure absolute fidelity between what the business asks for and what they get. This model should be defined by the business, as opposed to a BPEL-based articulation, which is a part of the SOA infrastructure.
• Prioritize services: BPM helps avoid wasting time and money on systems the business doesn’t need. Vendors have often led customers down the path of ’service enabling’ legacy systems, only to find out after building many re-useable services that only a few were needed by the business, and that some that weren’t built really were needed.
• Use collaborative tools: A common set of tools and language used by both the business and IT sides will increase the "velocity of communication" across the enterprise.

3 day course contents

What you will learn :

BPM in Context

• The many faces of BPM
• The BPM umbrella
• BPM and Governance
• Industry players
• Maturity within the market
• Current BPM challenges
• The future of BPM

BPM Layering

• What is layering?
• Common layers
• Auxiliary layers
• The BPM stack
• Digesting the layers
• Layering rules of thumb �

The State of Standards

• Standards – Friend or foe?
• Standards bodies
• Mature standards
• Standards in flux
• Emerging standards
• Leveraging SOA and BPM standards

Roles within BPM

• Enterprise roles within BPM
• Project Manager responsibilities
• Business Analyst responsibilities
• Architect responsibilities
• Developer responsibilities
• QA/Tester responsibilities
• Configuration manager responsibilities
• Specialist roles and responsibilities
• New role: Integration specialist
• New role: Process champion

Process-centric SOA

• The importance of Business Process Management (BPM) within SOA
• Common BPM pitfalls
• Modeling business processes
• Business process as documentation
• Controlling business processes
• Driving a process-centric enterprise

Rules-driven BPM

• Business rules within BPM
• Externalizing existing rules
• Identifying new rules
• Managing SOA business rules
• Leveraging business rules
• Supporting tools

Process and Service Identification Methodologies

• Overview of popular methodologies
• Top-down modeling
• Bottom-up modeling
• Goal-service modeling
• BPM modeling pitfalls
• BPM modeling recommendations

Service Lifecycle Recommendations

• SOA lifecycle overview
• High risk points within the SOA lifecycle
• Handling service and process dependencies
• Service composition
• Configuration and control
• Proper retirement of processes and services

Service Versioning Strategies

• The problem of SOA versioning
• Configuration control granularity
• The role of the service registry
• Naming conventions
• Process versioning
• Service versioning
• Operation versioning
• Supporting multiple simultaneous versions
• Defining a version control policy (VCP)

BPM-SOA Testing Strategies

• The problem of SOA testing
• End-to-end testing within BPM
• WS-I compliance
• WS-Policy compliance
• Mock clients and services
• Regression testing gotchas
• BPM testing recommendations �

Security Recommendations

• BPM and security considerations
• The SOA security stack
• Security standards
• Single Sign On
• Identity management
• SOA security approaches
• Point-to-Point security
• ESB-brokered security
• The security service layer

BPM Business Patterns

• Business patterns
• The Self-service model
• The Information warehouse model
• The Information subscription model
• The User collaboration model
• The Extended enterprise model
• Custom business models

Human Patterns within BPM

• Human factors
• Pattern: BPM Champion
• Pattern: Centre of Excellence
• Pattern: Collaborative Enterprise
• Pattern: Process-driven Business
• Pattern: Selective BPM �