BPM and ERP is the "enemy" or "Friends"?
ERP information technology in recent years, the most popular word, it MRP (Material Resource Planning), MRPII as the core, its management thinking in general around the supply chain, manufacturing and finance as the core. The BPM From enhancing enterprise-wide business performance, reduce cycle feedback to adjust and adapt to change as the goal, to process-oriented focus was the customer experience and core values. In the implementation of scope, ERP enterprise's business functions as the core, while the BPM is from top to bottom, through internal and external organizations. ERP for the transaction of business belongs to class (job level) and micro-tight integration, such as the ERP-to-order manufacturing strategy intervention point in time, providing for-stock (MTS), MTO (MTO), assemble-to-order (ATO), facing-Order (ETO). The BPM is a strategic decision-oriented, operations management class (senior) to provide macro-agile collaboration, improve enterprise-wide business performance from the lower feedback cycle, and adjusted to adapt to changing goals, such as customer order satisfaction over the procurement, design, production, distribution , installation, after-sales and a series of process-oriented process management. Can be said that the two have different management structural features of solitary.

Nevertheless, Dominic Dey that the relationship between the two is not the enemy but a close ally.

In fact, BPM in the implementation process are more concerned about the enterprise to establish a concept, a comprehensive analysis of existing business in order, continuous process of defining a key, while the ERP is that business in-depth change, to create a new business, organizational model . Our business activities can be divided into the strategic level, operational level and operational level, a complete IT information systems planning for these three levels of support, BPM can be effectively integrated ERP will enable operations management level corporate strategy, decision-making and operations Agile and automation to a unprecedented new level. In a sense, BPM open for the implementation of ERP. Can not be said instead of who is who.

Reveal the relationship between BPM and SOA
Asked about the views of the SOA when Dominic Dey right CIO Age to tell reporters, SOA out of his dream, he said: "SOA emergence or implemented in the enterprise, enabling inter-enterprise interoperability is easier than ever, and inter together for more powerful force for a further promote business change happen. "So he believed that the implementation of SOA in the enterprise, there are and the" elephant dance "the same meaning.

For the relationship between BPM and SOA, Dominic Dey that: "BPM is a top-down driving business innovation, SOA is a bottom-up driven by technological innovation, when the BPM after SOA encountered, BPM and SOA embraced, driving innovation in business management , BPM is SOA to achieve business-driven innovation in the key. "

Regardless of SOA ERP or even that we discussed today, BPM, tools are people-oriented, technology's mission is to create greater value for the enterprise, business process management, has now developed into the face of opportunities and face more high challenge, faced with the rapid development of emerging new business needs in technology as the core value-driven business process management platform to adhere to? How innovation? It is left to middleware vendors a business process thinking question.