The concept of a Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has gotten considerable press recently, particularly since the OASIS publication of WS-BPEL (Web Services BPEL) in a mature version 2. BPEL lets you embody the functions of Web services, which have to cooperate to carry out a complex business task, in a standardized XML format. Let's examine some of the trends which provide the background for this idea.

Coordinating Complex Systems

Join Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley tomorrow, February 9, for his weekly technical talk CTO Tuesdays at 12pm EST / 9am PST / 17:00 GMT. Register at http://www.activevos.com/ctot. This week's episode is entitled "Viewing and fixing running processes."

Technologies discussed on "CTO Tuesdays" cover a wide variety of BPM technologies, including BPMN 2.0, process modeling tools, BPEL, execution engines, AJAX-based forms development and human task integration.

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Join Dennis Callaghan, senior analyst at The 451 Group for his take on
what the recent M&A activity means from a business and strategy
perspective for BPM on Wednesday, February 3 at 12pm ET / 9am PT / 17:00 GMT. Then, stay tuned for Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley's introduction to ActiveVOS 7  – the
BPMS that brings end users, business analysts and IT together
collaboratively to create process applications. Register: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/628833875

Join Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley February 2 for a special episode of the weekly technical talk CTO Tuesdays at 12pm EST / 9am PST / 17:00 GMT. Register at http://www.activevos.com/ctot. John Newton, CTO and chairman, Alfresco Software, makes a special guest appearance on the February 2 episode of CTO Tuesdays and covers how enterprise content management systems and BPM can be linked using the Content Management Interoperability Standard (CMIS). An interactive panel discussion follows John's presentation.

Register: http://www.activevos.com/ctot

Join Active Endpoints' product manager Mike Moniz for a free webinar entitled "An Introduction to ActiveVOS BPMS" on Wednesday, January 27 at 12pm EDT / 9am PDT /  17:00 GMT. Register at http://www.activevos.com/weeklywebinar. In a live demo and Q&A, Mike will demonstrate a new AJAX-based, services-enabled forms designer, a brand-new BPMN 2.0 modeler and other features in ActiveVOS 7.0. Learn how standards such as BPMN, BPEL and WS-HumanTask play a role in BPM and SOA application development.