The idea of cloud based BPM is very inviting but also little bit frightening.
Certainly a fully cloud based solution would result in less start up time for a project to lay down the initial process flows and get cross department buy in as to the correctness of human processes. However enabling straight through processing from a process running in the cloud to enterprise systems would likely raise more concerns then a BPM project would want to be dealing with.
Perhaps a hybrid BPM model where processes can move in and out of the cloud would alleviate these concerns.
Maybe a BPM "proxy" layer running in the DMZ perhaps? This keep all details about an organizations internal systems out of the cloud but would still allow the higher level orchestrating process to run in the cloud.
Thoughts?
Hi Mark,
ReplyDeleteI don't disagree with your thoughts. BPs exposed can reveal a lot of stuff. I am struggling with some similar issues in the domain I support. The challenge is that the BP exposed is well, life dependent yet the integration of these processes is across multiple disciplines.
For fear of not integrating I have to come up with something that will expose complex (expert) processes without compromising the process or even the data.
The only problem with moving in and out is that it creates a pile of new BP service points which shouldn't be there... They are just there in the name of security.
My thoughts,
Greg P.