Christopher Riley writes, "Just wanted to give a rundown of the Eclipse BPEL Project and my impressions at the moment. Having experienced most of my BPEL development in either TextPad (BPEL 1.0) or in the Cape Clear Studio solution (BPEL 1.1), the Eclipse BPEL Project was not too difficult to slide into. Here are the highlights. BPEL Project is only focused on BPEL 2.0. No BPEL 1.1 at this time. Overall GUI is nicely organized and employs a very similar look and feel to the BPEL Editor in Cape Clear..."

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The SOA readiness survey of 180 UK organisations by Birmingham-based systems integrator Griffiths Waite showed that of the 47% of respondents pursuing SOA, 20% had already implemented at least one SOA project.

And of that 20%, almost half (49%) said their main reason for adopting SOA was to achieve IT flexibility and 14% said it would enable them to get the most out of their IT investments by providing industry standards for accessing functionality and resources.

"Composability within SOA" will be the focus of Open Standards 2008, the fifth annual symposium hosted by OASIS, the international, not-for-profit consortium. The event, which will be held in Santa Clara, California, 28 April — 1 May, will examine the critical issues faced when architecting service-oriented applications and the benefits being reaped by real-world implementations that take advantage of Web services transactions.

Intalio, Inc., the Open Source BPMS company, today announced an OEM agreement with Informatica Corporation, the independent provider of enterprise data integration and data quality software. Informatica will embed Intalio technology into its data integration platform. The partnership builds the framework for the next generation in Business Process Management, a move to a more complete set of functionality.

William Vambenepe writes, "I have been looking at business process modeling and I am a bit puzzled about the connections between the different goals (strategy support, process documentation, automated execution….), audiences (LOB, business analysts, developers…) and tools (process editor, registry, simulation bench, IDE…). I see how it would be nice for all these to play well together. What I don’t quite see is exactly how the current tools achieve that.