This document discusses workflow and business process management (BPM). It defines key BPM terminology like BPMN and BPEL. It describes how Visio and SharePoint can be used for basic workflow and process modeling, but have limitations without additional customization or integration with full BPM systems. Full BPM systems provide capabilities like process engines and analytics that go beyond what products like Visio and SharePoint offer out of the box. The document demonstrates integrating SharePoint and BizTalk to provide an augmented BPM solution.

1. The Many Faces Of Workflow Garry StewartAvanade

2. 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

3. Terminology

4. BPM - What’s in a name?

5. Business Process Management Lifecycle

6. Business Process Management Workflow

7. 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

8. Visio Process Repository Demonstration

9. 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

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

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

12. What About SharePoint?

13. “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/

14. Augmenting SharePoint BPM And many more…

15. Biztalk 2010 + SharePoint 2010 Demonstration

16. Summary Insert Random Ramblings Here

17. Question and Answer Hopefully You’re Still Awake

18. 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/