Business Process Management (BPM) garners much attention in the technology market. Several organizations, research firms, publications and bloggers provide frequent updates on trends and developments. The media forecasts enormous growth for BPM and its supporting technologies. Most of the coverage focuses on tactical issues related to specific components of BPM and on commentators' musings on technological nuances and specifications.
The premise of this paper is that enterprise process modeling, analysis, architecture and implementation are at the core of business process management and optimization. Topics covered include process modeling collaboration considerations, process architectures versus enterprise architectures and the requirements for linkages between the two and process implementation issues.