Business Rules Platform

BPM is business-driven. It’s about optimizing and improving business performance at the end-to-end process level, innovating the business, making it more efficient, faster, more agile, more compliant with policies and best practices, and more measurable. It’s top-down because it begins with the end-to-end process. SOA is IT-driven. It’s about transforming IT infrastructure, leveraging existing investment and breaking it into reusable parts. The goal is making solution implementation faster and less costly, but it’s bottom-up because it begins with the parts, not the end-to-end solutions. BPM and SOA are both important, and they should be used together.