One of the first questions customers have when they start building an application integration architecture is: "Do I need to use a BPA or BPM tool or can I start with BPEL or OSB?". BPA and BPM tools are not required to develop a flexible, secure, scalable, performant application, system or IT integration architecture that meets the needs of the business. However, BPA and BPM tools get the business community involved early, increasing the chance of an integration architecture that is built for the present and future. These tools also increase the likelihood that you will have an SOA integration architecture that is usable across the enterprise (instead of point solutions being deployed in different departments), that has a shared metadata model, and uses a common set of artifacts such as XSLT, data types, and SOAP messages. Not using a BPM or BPA tool is like not using an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) when developing a database system. Instead...
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