Oracle launched on Monday Oracle Data Integration Suite, which combines traditional data integration capabilities with an array of middleware and tooling for constructing a service oriented architecture. Data Integration Suite costs $60,000 per CPU for a package that bundles Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle/Hyperion Data Relationship Manager with the company's BPEL Process Manager, enterprise service bus, application server, business-to-business engine, and business rules engine, according to a statement.

The vast majority of software producers focus exclusively on domain-specific solutions.

This article arguments that the gap between the analysis and the implementation of business processes is far bigger then the marketing of today's workflow tools might suggest. Also it will propose a much more realistic way of dealing with this situation. The current standards and initiatives will be explained with enough depth so that you can see how they relate to the movements and why. In the discussions, I'll identify the strengths and weaknesses of each discussed technology and describe the proper and improper ways of using them.

All interested parties are invited to participate in the new OASIS WS-BPEL Extension for People (BPEL4People) Technical Committee, which will hold its first meeting on 5 March 2008. The Committee will work to define:

OASIS members are asked to review and comment on a draft charter to establish the OASIS WS-BPEL Extension for People (BPEL4People) Technical Committee. The group plans to extend the WS-BPEL 2.0 OASIS Standard to enable human interactions. Proposers include representatives of four OASIS Foundational Sponsors--BEA, IBM, SAP, and Sun Microsystems--as well as Sponsor members, Active Endpoints, Adobe, Axway, Fujitsu, NIST, Oracle, Software AG, and others. The comment period for the charter closes 28 Jan 2008.