SOA BUP and BPEL / ERP?

An interesting comment here to my post at 
eBizq.

 

The idea articulated here is what BCM/ERP is 
doing.

 

I'm not sure BPEL could support this treatment - 
maybe

some future abstract BPEL might - but right now 
BPEL

is not scriptable by a higher level 
abstraction.

 

Anyway - shows that an SOA BUP concept 
should

resonate well with people...?

 

DW.

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Ashok Mansukhani
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I strongly 
concur with Shone Sadler's identification of BPM as the driver and compositor of 
business services, both coarse- and fine-grained, to deliver business best 
practices.

Incipient trends supporting such evolution is evidenced by 
Siebel's UAN-based Industry Solutions and perhaps Microsoft's Acclerators and 
Templates. These vertical templates that wrap best practices should eventually 
abstract and evolve into generic design patterns to be extended and configured 
into flexible solutions. A future loosely-coupled, extensible, and BPEL-based 
ERP of sorts?
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