Perth SharePoint Saturday 2011: The Many Faces of Workflow

The Many Faces Of Workflow
Garry StewartAvanade

Who
Garry Stewart
Solution Architect & Perth Location Lead
Avanade
Integration VTSP
Microsoft
Contact Details
http://twitter.com/garry_stewart
http://www.garry-stewart.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/stewartgarry

Terminology

BPM - What’s in a name?

Business Process Management Lifecycle

Business Process Management Workflow

Standards are Fun!
Business Process Modelling Notation
Graphical flowchart language used to represent business process in an intuitive visual form
Business Process Modelling Language
XML language for encoding process flow for interpretation by process execution engine
Competes with BPEL
Business Process Query Language
Query Language for business process. Used for Business Activity Monitoring
BPSM, BPEL, BPXL and more

Visio Process Repository
Demonstration

Reality Bites
Model Execution from a common standard is not that common
BPMN and BPEL do have good support
Model Execution without Developer Intervention is even less common
Except in extremely simple scenarios

Business Process Management Systems
SOA Oriented
Contain
Process Engine
Business Analytics
Content Management
Collaboration Tools
Management

What Everyone Else Does
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BPM_Workflow_Service_Pattern.gif

What About SharePoint?

“Good Enough” To Be Dangerous
“Microsoft’s SharePoint is a Virus Infecting BPM”
Jim Sinur, Research VP at Gartner
Source: http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2008/11/11/microsofts-sharepoint-is-a-virus-infecting-bpm/

Augmenting SharePoint BPM
And many more…

Biztalk 2010 + SharePoint 2010
Demonstration

Summary
Insert Random Ramblings Here

Question and Answer
Hopefully You’re Still Awake

Related Links
Business Process Management Initiative
http://www.bpmi.org/
BPMN 1.2 in Visio
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visio/archive/2009/12/03/bpmn-support-in-visio-2010.aspx
Mick Badran’s SharePoint & BizTalk Blog
http://blogs.breezetraining.com.au/mickb/

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Perth SharePoint Saturday 2011: The Many Faces of Workflow

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