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BPM applications in the real world
Once we understand the basic elements of the BPM discipline, we need to apply it to a real-
world scenario in order to learn from involvement and acquire experience. To do so, the
best way to go is to use
Business Process Management System
(
BPMS
) as an aid in most
of the BPM discipline stages.
A BPMS helps in the BPM discipline in the same way an
Enterprise Service Bus
(
ESB
)
helps in defining a
service-oriented architecture
(
SOA
). It provides a centralized environ-
ment to define, implement, and run business processes.
BPMS is a middleware component (a piece of software that allows us to create more soft-
ware). It provides us with the tools to directly work on the specifics of our case, taking ad-
vantage of the already available functionality that is oriented to solve very specific tasks for
each stage of the discipline. In the next section, we will see a list of things to take into ac-
count when we are evaluating a BPM system.
