OASIS recently announced formation of a new technical committee for BPEL4People. WS-BPEL 2.0 (or BPEL for short), the current version, does not address participation of people in business processes. This is one indication that BPEL isn't designed for business users. It's designed for programmers, and BPEL4People won't change that. A true business process language must be designed to represent business processes that make sense for the business and can be, in some cases, implemented manually, as well with a BPMS (Business Process Management System). A business process language also must support SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). As asserted by Joe McKendrick, "BPM and SOA Need Each Other.".
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