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130 Chapter 7 Working from Your Processes to the Clouds
BPM is a strategy as much as a technology. It strengthens your organization’s
ability to interact with any number of systems—inside or outside the
organization, on-premise or cloud-based—by integrating entire business
processes both within and among enterprises or from on-premise to clouddelivered
processes (see Figure 7.2). It is important to consider that processes
may span from
On-premise to cloud-based
Just cloud-based
Just on-premise
Intraenterprise (within a company)
Interenterprise (between companies)
Processes can span any number of complex systems within the same company
or among companies, and can exist and leverage resources that are locally
hosted (on-premise) or cloud computing based. This functionality exists to
bind services together to create solutions that are easy to create and change.
Since processes typically do not drive constant development and redevelopment,
BPM is more of a configuration process. The core value is to drive and
solve business problems by leveraging processes.
System
Processes
System
Services
Figure 7.2 BPM allows you to bind services, cloud-based or on-premise, to create
core business processes for your business.