Web Services and Business Process Management

Web Services and Business Process Management
Today’s businesses face a monumental challenge when applying systems integration in their operations. As a result, organizations have to contend with unreliable customer support, unrelenting competition and long cycle times. With the current standards of integration, organizations find it difficult to adapt to changes, mainly due to poor communication among the various software. This means organizations are unable to change with the market trends. System integration presents problems to engineers who have to deal with interface disparities, changes in software application, connections and so on. To make system integration successful, resiliency of the system is paramount. An upcoming solution referred to as Web Services Technology, brings the much-needed resiliency. (Umupathy & Purao, 2010)
Web services technology is one of several service-oriented architectures used by organizations to overcome system integration challenges. It is a platform through which applications are repackaged for universal accessibility through applications and interfaces. (Umupathy & Purao, 2010)
Researchers have suggested web services technology applications in different sectors, for example in gear enterprise manufacture. Networked manufacturing is already in use, but the incorporation of web services is seen as a big improvement in this sector. Web services technology introduces efficient and collaborative processes in gear enterprises manufacture. It is not easy to apply system integration in gear manufacture because of several reasons. Firstly, gears take a long time to process and come in different varieties. In addition, several applications are required in gear manufacture enterprises. There are several other integration requirements for gear manufacture; hence, there is need for a reliable integrated information system. (Yang et al, 2010)
The importance of better system integration is also identified in the IGCC plan...