BPM and SOA Together in One Product

The key strength of Cordys BPMS is enabling faster, better business process automation with complete control over building and managing composite applications. This is made possible because Cordys BPMS is built from the ground up to offer natively integrated business process management (BPM) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) capabilities. The synergy between these two capabilities and the fact that they reside in single, comprehensive toolset are the key ways Cordys works differently than other BPM offerings.

BPM—The Business Process Driver

Cordys BPMS bridges the gap between business and IT by allowing both groups to use a common set of easy-to-understand business process models. Business users employ these executable graphic models to automate workflows. IT then connects the models to legacy or backend systems—without losing any time or requirements in the translation. The resulting composite applications enable you to leverage existing IT assets and legacy systems and reuse processes for efficient business process automation. And since monitoring and design are in the same toolset, you can respond proactively to shifting business conditions and real-time feedback by simply “dragging and dropping” any changes.

An optional Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) layer offers real-time alerts and notifications, an operational intelligence dashboard, and historical analyses that accelerate your responsiveness to critical events and exceptions, provide you with real-time enterprise-wide visibility of business process performance metrics, and help you uncover enterprise performance trends. All this, in turn, gives you greater control over your business processes.

SOA—The Integration Engine

The Cordys BPMS SOA layer is a high-performance, scalable integration engine that connects everything in your IT environment together. At its core is the Cordys SOA Grid, a self-healing, stateless, next-generation enterprise service bus (ESB) that offers much more than basic transport. The SOA Grid’s fault-tolerant run-time environment, rich scalability, and high availability allow you to integrate existing systems across geographies and departmental silos—regardless of complexity or interoperability limitations—resulting in improved cycle times because translation tools are no longer necessary. It also seamlessly connects your executable business models to underlying Web services or legacy applications and ensures that everything works smoothly throughout the business process lifecycle.

Support for XML, SOAP, WSDL, and PKI further ensures connectivity and interoperability between Cordys BPMS and your entire environment. And because XML is interpreted, not compiled, each step in the development cycle is faster.