Business Rules Platform

Once you have a correct set of components, BPM can allow you to recompose them at will into new processes, and SOA can allow you to deploy and execute them on an enterprise (or even inter-enterprise) service bus. But, neither BPM nor SOA can, together or singly, tell you how to define the correct components you'll need at either level, much less how to synch these up. With MDA, we can paint a much clearer and more compelling picture of the BPM-to-SOA approach. We start by defining a formal BPM-based business viewpoint, a formal SOA-based services viewpoint, and a formal transformation between them. Until we can do all this, we really can’t guarantee that any particular set of business components – or any business process built from those components – can map down to SOA.