Achieving Business Agility by Integrating SOA and BPM Technology

The application system of business must be fast enough to response the change from customer's request in current complex business environment. Business agility can ensure the enterprise survives in the explosive competition. In this paper, the author analyze the limitation and deficiency of the business agility in the traditional enterprise application integration, and propose a novel enterprise application integration and business agility scheme centered as business process management (BPM), based on service-oriented architecture (SOA). On the further discussion of SOA and BPMpsilas combining principle, the author proposed a new method that BPM agent acts as the connection of SOA and BPM. Through the coordination of undergoing process and service based on BPM agent, it reduced the influence causing by separating change of SOA and BPM in maximum, and finally achieve the business agility.