• Agility, supply and value chain integration, efficient/effective partnering, outsourcing and right-sourcing
• Improved governance, process controls, and regulatory compliance
• Relentless pressure for better cost controls, productivity gains, process automation and optimization
• Continuous quality improvement, Six Sigma, ITIL, CRM enhancement, and similar initiatives

For many organizations, the combination of Business Process Modeling, targeting deployment and management in SOA environment, has become a key part of their IT planning and pilot projects to respond to these needs. The great challenge is to ensure specific business practices, policies, and processes can be mapped onto new generation and legacy applications and infrastructure, adapted as needed in both human and automated workflows, all with limited resources in IT and LOB departments. Traditional methods of application development, integration, and deployment are being augmented and increasingly replaced by Model Driven Development. BPM focuses on defining business processes well, taking full advantage of the abstraction and loose coupling of SOA, to permit effective control of business rules by business stakeholders while greatly improving the productivity of skilled IT staff. While transitions to SOA are not simple, SOA has been adopted by all the leading IT vendors and has become strategic for most IT plans. Business Process Modeling can provide quick returns for non-automated process optimization, help architects efficiently generate rapid proofs of concept, and be a low cost path toward effective SOA. BPM drives in-depth early discovery of true requirements, missing rules, information, and components. It helps clarify, prioritize, and ensure both rewarding business results and maintainable infrastructure.