The South East Asia SOA Weblog

I just came back from BEA Welcome Event in Dharmawangsa Hotel, Jakarta last week (August 14, 2008). The event talks about the new product road map for Oracle middleware after the acquisition of BEA Systems.

Actually the road map has been made official since July 1st, 2008, complete webcast and presentation of the entire roadmap can be found in Oracle website here.

In the BPM area, as Bruce Silver predicted before in his observation, Oracle is trying to combine Oracle BPEL Process Manager and BEA Aqua Logic BPM into one integrated BPM solution. Oracle BPEL Process Manager is targeting the enterprise integration perspective with its support towards Web Service standard and BEA ALBPM is targeted towards workflow and business process optimization perspective.

At this moment, the two solutions still feel as separate solutions, with each of them has its own IDE and running environment, maybe Oracle will try to combine them in the future into one integrated framework for BPM. We’ll see how it develops.