Gartner recently published a report highlighting the top ten strategic technologies for 2008. Business Process Management, or BPM, was ranked third, after green IT and Unified Communications.

A strategic technology is defined by Gartner as one with “the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years.” According to the report, factors that denote significant impact include “a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.”

On Business Process Modeling: “Top-level process services must be defined jointly by a set of roles (which include enterprise architects, senior developers, process architects and/or process analysts). Some of those roles sit in a service oriented architecture center of excellence, some in a process center of excellence and some in both. The strategic imperative for 2008 is to bring these groups together. Gartner expects BPM suites to fill a critical role as a compliment to SOA development.”

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-Konstantin Boehm, Ancud IT