What is the difference between business process modeling and business process management?
Manes: Modeling is really just a representation of the business process. If you have a business process management suite, that management suite might automate that process for you. But the model exists whether you’re using an internal business process management suite or you’re just writing it in code. But if you really want to be able to rapidly change a business process, you need to model. SAP doesn’t have a business process management suite. They don’t have [something similar to BEA Systems’ Fuego application or Lombardi Software’s offering], they just say, “Here are our business processes, here is how they’re implemented, here is how they’re tied together and here is how you can adapt them.” How does Oracle’s approach to SOA differ from SAP’s strategy? Manes: Oracle has a much more diverse and more open approach. They’ve got their applications, they’ve got the Siebel applications and they’ve got [about] 20 other applications that they’ve acquired over the last six months, and those
