Microsoft shines a BPM light on the small ones
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Emboldened by mass adoption for its BizTalk Server 2006 middleware by Fortune 500 businesses, Microsoft said it has formed the Business Process Alliance to make it easier for smaller businesses to employ business process management (BPM) software.
BPA is a group of 10 companies whose goal is to build BPM packages for smaller companies that haven't yet jumped onto the bandwagon.
BPM software helps distributed computing systems, such as service-oriented architectures, arrange Web services so that they are seamlessly exchanged between computers.