Understanding SOA, Web Services, BPM, and BPEL
Part Two: BPEL and User Recommendations
P.J. Jakovljevic - December 23, 2004

Web Services Orchestration

Increasing demand-driven responsiveness towards customers' needs requires a well-coordinated set of IT infrastructure components, since it is no longer good enough to purchase disparate pieces and expect them to simply interoperate. The ideal should be a sort of an independent data exchange that would leverage common metadata and processes to create composite functionality derived from existing application and Web services assets, which are kept in a repository for dynamic, almost on-the-fly assembly in, for example, a role-specific portal, with context-sensitive data for all types of users and business decision makers...