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What is BPEL?January 29, 2007 21:33Today I had to answer some questions that involved BPEL. So what is BPEL? BPEL stands for Business Process Execution Language. When we connect the systems of two or more organizations, it might be useful or even necessary to know something about the business process from each company. There are “easy” ways to share business process information between Business Process Management (BPM) systems when they are created by the same vendor. For example, with BizTalk Server 2006 you can use the Trading Partner Management technology to exchange this information. However, in real life, most companies use systems from different vendors.
BPEL isn’t a complete language for defining business processes. For that reason it is hard to view it as a fully mature technology, but of course it keeps evolving. A more thorough explanation of BPEL can be found here. Tags: biztalk server, bpel, business process execution language, business process management, business processes, mature technology, Microsoft, oasis, orchestration, partner management.More BizTalk linksJanuary 27, 2007 22:10Just some more links for me to remember. I’m going to make a fresh virtual pc with BizTalk Server 2006 and SharePoint 2007. This Microsoft page provides installation instructions for BizTalk. Another page provides all documentation of BizTalk in PDF format. I’m going to dump them on my USB stick to carry around. Tags: biztalk server, Microsoft, Sharepoint, usb stick, virtual pc. |
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To allow insight in each other Business processes Microsoft, IBM and others have created the BPEL language. The language is particularly useful to describe and sharing externally visible parts of a business process. BPEL is an Orchestration language which is built entirely on Web services. Inside BizTalk it is possible to export business processes that are designed with the Orchestration Designer into BPEL.