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In a recent observation made by Bruce Silver in Intelligent Enterprise (http://www.intelligententerprise.com/blog/archives/2008/06/the_future_of_b.html), he talks about the future of BPM at Oracle/BEA after the acquisition.

Bruce made an interesting observation about two points of view of looking at BPM solution, one is from integration middleware perspective, the other is from optimization of workflow and business performance.

It looks to me that one is looking at BPM bottom up, while the other is looking at it top down. Oracle and BEA adopts these two different point of views for BPM. Oracle’s approach is more towards looking at BPM from integration perspective, transforming enterprise applications from old-style monoliths to composable services. BEA sees BPM from the straight BPM perspective, from workflow and business performance optimization perspective.

At this point, it is too early to tell what approach will be taken by the Oracle/BEA BPM offering. Bruce Silver predicts that it is possible Oracle will maintain both product lines while still figuring out what to do with them. There will be a Webcast on July 1st 2008 by Oracle President Charles Phillips and Oracle Senior Vice President Thomas Kurian that will explore about the addition of BEA products to Oracle Fusion Middleware. We shall then see what will happen…