This IBM® Redbooks® publication explains how to combine business process management (BPM) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) for better business outcomes. This book provides a unique synergistic approach to BPM and EA, based on a firm understanding of the life cycles of the enterprise and the establishment of appropriate collaboration and governance processes. When carried out together, BPM provides the business context, understanding, and metrics, and EA provides the discipline to translate business vision and strategy into architectural change. Both are needed for sustainable continuous improvement.

This book provides thought leadership and direction on the topic of BPM and EA synergies. Although technical in nature, it is not a typical IBM Redbooks publication. The book provides guidance and direction on how to collaborate effectively across tribal boundaries rather than technical details about IBM software products.

The primary audience for this book is leaders and architects who need to understand how to effectively combine BPM and EA to drive, as a key differentiator, continuous improvement and transformational change with enterprise scope.

Part 1. Better business outcomes

Chapter 1. Coordinating planning and delivery

Chapter 2. BPM and EA defined

Chapter 3. BPM and EA synergies

Part 2. From tribes to nations

Chapter 4. BPM methods and tools

Chapter 5. EA methods and tools

Chapter 6. Stop copying; start linking

Chapter 7. The role of standards

Chapter 8. Governing change

Chapter 9. Effective enterprise collaboration

Part 3. A worked example

Chapter 10. EA applied

Chapter 11. BPM applied

Chapter 12. Linking EA and BPM artifacts

Chapter 13. Four select collaboration scenarios