The workshop will take place Oct. 16-19 in Burlingame, Calif. Judith Hurwitz, president of Hurwitz & Associates, will give the keynote presentation and Shane Pearson, vice president of product management at BEA Systems, will give the technical keynote.
With the growing acceptance and popularity of service-oriented architecture (SOA), computing systems now extend far beyond the firewall to automate enterprise-wide business processes, covering sales, supply chain, manufacturing, delivery, payment, HR and more. The accurate capture and representation of business processes requires its own modeling environment that must merge smoothly with application modeling in order to feed into the software development, execution, maintenance, and evolution cycles that sustain and grow a business.