The end in mind

Very nice article on where the software industry is heading with business process modelling. Frames it very clearly.

To build a code generator, it would need to integrate with these business processing languages but would probably best tackle the area of user tasks first.

A less visible battle is happening in parallel at the level of user "tasks". The process-oriented logic can be divided in two broad categories: a) tasks, which represent the interactions between a user and a given unit of work and b) business processes, which represent the compositions of tasks, systems interactions and B2B transactions.

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# re: The end in mind

Left by Mike at 3/28/2004 4:50 PM
Gravatar Hey Ian - did you miss the link to the article?

I've been out and about a lot lately talking to them about BizTalk Server and this line that is drawn between user-interactions and system-interactions seems to be where we spend most of our time talking as it's not particularly well defined as to how you put together products to cover both areas (or, indeed whether there are products that cover both areas).

BizTalk covers the system interaction piece pretty well and, indeed, it generates code to do it and models all of it (pretty much) as web service interactions with nice extensibility points by calling out to .NET code. What it doesn't (really) cover so much is the user interactions with a unit of work so that'd be a nice space for you to do some innovation ;-)

# re: The end in mind

Left by Ian at 3/28/2004 5:33 PM
Gravatar Sorry. Fixed the title link. Still working out what the difference is between "Title Link" and "Source Link" in dotText.

Yes, thanks. I think I'm finding where the niche is ;-)

Something that consumes forms and a navigation model on one side and talks to web services on the other side.

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