BPEL is evolving into a key standard for describing both human and computer processes. It was originally conceived by the OASIS Web standards industry group as a language for specifying interactions with Web services. In order to manage human processes, organizations had to turn to other tools built on top of the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) developed by the Object Management Group. Both of these efforts have converged to some extent with the release of BPMN 2.0, which defines BPEL as an underlying format for storing information.

Join Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley tomorrow, July 13, for his weekly technical talk CTO Tuesdays at 12pm EDT / 9am PDT / 16:00 UTC. Register at http://www.activevos.com/ctot. This week's topic is "SOA – from concept to SOAP Opera."

Join Active Endpoints' product manager Mike Moniz for a free webinar entitled "An Introduction to ActiveVOS BPMS" on Wednesday, July 7 at 12pm EDT / 9am PDT /  16:00 UTC. Register at http://www.activevos.com/weeklywebinar. In a brand new live demo and Q&A, Mike will demonstrate a new AJAX-based, services-enabled forms designer, a BPMN 2.0 modeler and other features in ActiveVOS 7. Learn how standards such as BPMN, BPEL and WS-HumanTask play a role in BPM and SOA application development.