B2B Integration : A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce

Business Process Management (BPM) 151
BPM systems are increasingly becoming a core segment of the
major integration platforms available commercially. They include a
point-and-click visual modeling tool through which the business analysts
and developers can design and build distributed business processes that
can be deployed immediately and changed in real-time. At the core of
BPM systems is an execution engine which routes messages or events
from integrated applications, based on the rules and the state of the
current business process, to different participants of the process, whether
they are people or systems.