Over $8 Billion Market for Service-Oriented Process Solutions by 2008, Says Report

Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM

(April 21, 2003) - As enterprises apply service-oriented architecture principles to business process management and automation, they will find that "Service-Oriented Process" solutions will supplant the need for today's integration solutions, concludes a report published by analyst firm ZapThink, LLC. The report predicts that the market for these service-oriented process solutions will grow from $120 million in 2003 to over $8.3 billion by 2008

The report defines service-oriented process as a separate abstraction layer for business process definition and execution that leverages the capabilities of Service-oriented Architectures. Service-oriented process provides businesses an approach to tying business requirements to the service model represented in the SOA metamodel, providing a flexible approach towards implementing architectures that promote business agility. "Approaching business process from a service-oriented perspective enables business requirements to drive IT capabilities in an agile, cost-effective manner," explained Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink

Key findings of the report include:

By 2005, over 70% of Web services implementations will be process-driven.

The standards landscape will converge on a single choreography, orchestration, and process flow specification in the next 12-18 months.

Service-oriented process includes orchestration, choreography, composition, workflow, transactions, and collaboration of Web Services.

Services must be developed devoid of process in order that they can participate in an SOA that meets the goals of business agility

Service-Oriented Management techniques can assist in managing discrete services as well as end-to-end business processes.

The report concludes that service-oriented process tools enable business users to assemble business-oriented Web services into business processes that are themselves exposed as Web services.

More about the "Service-Oriented Process" report is at the ZapThink Web site.

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Over $8 Billion Market for Service-Oriented Process Solutions by 2008, Says Report

Keith Harrison-Broninski wrote: If assembling business-oriented Web services into business processes is to be done successfully, complex changes to the business data involved must be managed "transactionally" - all saved or cancelled in one go. This is a challenge for most web service orchestration products, which tend to try and achieve this via the web services concerned - not always possible, and usually very tricky to set up. A better approach is to use a process management framework which can orchestrate web services as well as dealing naturally with data (RADRunner, for example).

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