Six Myths of Rules and Business Process Management

One of BPM's early pioneers, Dr. Setrag Khoshafian, Vice President of BPM Technology at Pegasystems (previously Senior Vice President of Technology with Savvion), surely knows a thing or two about BPMS. In this short and interesting white paper he diffuses what he identifies are Six Myths of Rules and Business Process Management.

The Six myths dispelled with insightful reality checks include:

1. We are focusing on BPM (automating processes) not rules [sigh… I hear you doc!]
2. We can handle the rules in Java or C# [my personal favorite]
3. "Best of Breed" is best of choice [but is’nt loose coupling a good thing?]
4. Let the BPMS handle 'simple' rules and the BRE handle 'complex' rules [grin grin]
5. Rules should be modeled separately from BPM modeling [yeah right!]
6. Rule-based BPM is a process engine written in a rule language that 'reduces' everything including processes to a rule [frankly, I didn’t get that myself at first]

Many of the myths seem to stem from the fact that historically, application architectures have defined and handled BREs and BPMS as separate entities.

Get the white paper (available as a PDF download) from pega.com