Uniting Process Architecture and Execution

The synergy between Business Process Analysis (BPA) and Business Process Management (BPM) is obvious, but most industry analysts treat them as completely separate "quadrants," and in many companies there is little or no interaction between them. From the tool vendor's perspective, one can understand why this is. While there is tremendous value in uniting these disciplines, it's a technical challenge, and thus integration between BPA and BPM has been mostly clumsy and one-way.

In this paper, independent analyst Bruce Silver examines the Appian/MEGA integration of BPA and BPM, calling it a unique solution that "does it right." The Appian-MEGA solution shows not only that roundtrip integration can be done, but that such integration offers tremendous organizational value.