By: Filipe Pinto, Neal Walters
M2MSys Chief Architect
M2MSys Lead Microsoft Platform Architect
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Agenda
 What is the BPM Platform?
 The MS-BPM History
 The M-BPM Platform Components
 The MS-BPM Platform Cost
 The MS-BPM Team Structure
 Microsoft’s BPM Future.
 Senior IT Managers  “BPM Executive Summary”
 Architect and Senior Developers
 Technical Business Analyst Modeling
Business
Audience Videos Quality
Management
Process
Redesign
 Business Process Management System
Theory
Mathematics
Prerequisites Business
Science BPM SOA

What is a BPM Platform (BPMS)?
BPM Platform
Management Processes running?
Process #n
Process #3
Process Portal
Operations Manager
Process #2
Process #1 Business Activity Technical BA
Monitoring
Customer
Move processes to PROD
Deployment
Release Manager
Technical BA
Process
Process Virtual Definition Model, analyze
Business User Machine
EAI Process Designer
Business Analyst
Enterprise Services Bus
WS- SOA WS-SOA
Back Office Back Office
Application Application

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Microsoft BPM History
 BizTalk 2000 – Microsoft response to the middleware market
craze and web service emergence.
 BizTalk 2002 – minor upgrade on BizTalk 2000
 BizTalk 2004 – migration to the .NET framework. First BPM
concepts such as BAM and non-sequential workflow (Human
Workflow) even though extremely unbaked.
 BizTalk 2006 - Microsoft release BizTalk 2006 with minor
tuning intended to migration towards SQL 2005, Visual Studio
2005 and .NET 2.0 and in Mid 2007 they release BTS 06 R2.
 2006 – Microsoft finally recognizes the importance of BPM –
the first time Microsoft website makes a reference of the
word BPM and late that year the first BizTalk BPM Conference

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Microsoft BPM Platform
MOSS InfoPath Word Excel.
BizTalk
Visual Studio
Visio
SCOM
BAM XLANG SSO HAT BAS
Messg. Deploy Rules WS HWS
Export
SQL Analysis Report
Windows .NET IIS

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Cost
For a regular enterprise deployment, fail-over safe (2 of
each with exception of SCOM), we estimate that you
will need
 10 servers (a 10 blade rack) - $100K
 SAN - $50K
 Software: SQL – 2x$25K, BTS – 2x$25K, MOSS (depends
on the number of CLAs), SCOM (depends on the number
of machines) = $250K ++
 Maintenance/year = 20% = $50K
 Microsoft Premier Support = $100K/y
 Initial Cost = $500K
 Cost per Year = $150K

xDelivery™ Team Structure
M2MSys® Standard BPM Team
Customer’s
Liaison
MS BPM Architect: Project Manager
•Enterprise Architect •PMI
•BPM Expert •Unified Compliance
•Documentation
Senior Developer(s) Senior Technical Business Analyst Senior Infrastructure
•C# (webservices) •Business SME •Installation
•BizTalk •Business Rules •Configuration
•Sharepoint •BPM Modeling •Security
•SQL •Reports •ITIL®
•Testing

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The Microsoft-BPM Future!
Microsoft is trying to close the gap between the BPM
and the SOA approaches and has released the
Windows Workflow Foundation with .NET 3.0.
WF is a programming model, engine and tools for
quickly building workflow enabled applications on
Windows.
It consists of a WinFX namespace, an in-process
workflow engine, and designers for Visual Studio
2005. Includes support for both sequential workflow
and human workflow.
BizTalk 2008 will be re-written to use the new WF
framework.

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Summary
 The Microsoft BPM Platform is slowly taking shape and it
is still suffering from a certain lack of clear direction by
some of the server Teams – ASP and InfoPath are a clear
example.
 In its full configuration, it is difficult to configure
specially when MOSS is public facing.
 Microsoft arrived to BPM world via the SOA
orchestration (XLANG). Their technical staff is for the
most part not aware of TRUE business process oriented
development.
 Microsoft is investing on spreading the gospel of BPM
across its user community with the BizTalk-BPM
conferences.

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