Process automation
has been absorbed by all
kinds of tools. This will
continue to grow. |
Will continue to grow
for more than 15 years,
even if hidden as a component
of other products (EAI,
...). Ultimately any activity
will be impacted by workflow
in its routine parts.
Applications may be developped
as compoents assembled
using workflow technologies
(like database technologies). |
The market will continue
to evolve much as it has.
Process orientation in
the meta-data modeling
and overall system design
areas will increase. Integrated
development environments
will support a process
oriented approach to application
development. Process automation/execution
will continue to mature,
forcing consolidation
and comoditization. WebServices
will continue to be a
driving factor and the
distinction between worklfow,
BPM/A and WebServices
Choreography will continue
to blur. |
Beyond slow organic
evolution it’s anybody’s
guess until it becomes
a more widely understood
technology. |
- only a few vendors
will survive, each
with a specific focus
- different market
clusters, no general
solution provider
- increased importance
of embedded workflow
solutions
- comprehensive and
widely used inter-organizational
workflows will take
a few years
|
- It will fuse with
process integration
software, process
modeling, web services,
and XML development.
- We will need to
learn to work more
effectively with highly
imperfect standards.
|
in
the direction of service
composition, and of consolidating
towards a smaller number
of vendors. |
More
and more success stories
will drive pursuade companies
to invest more in this
area. |
As
more and more web services
will become available,
systems that are able
to build applications
from these services will
become indispensible.
Workflow systems that
are able to make use of
this architecture will
boom. The trend to use
standard technologies
(e.g. process definition
languages) will become
more and more important
but will be partially
invalidated by a continuing
inflation of standards. |
I
think that we will se
a slow increase in those
areas where component
based development hasn't
started. Some of the workflow
functions in component
based platforms might
be replaced by generic
workflow systems. |
I
guess it will grow, either
for dedicated (but open!)
workflow management products
or for workflow management
technology integrated
into e-business platforms. |
It
should increase dramaticaly.
Almost everything that
one does in one form or
another envolves a process
or a workflow therefore
all transactions could
be charted and automated.
With the advent of labour
shortages looming in the
next 5 to 10 years we
have no choice but to
flowchart and automate.
|
I'll
leave that to the IDCs
of this world :) |
Workflow
engine is becoming commodity.
Email is a commodity,
look at all the fee email
programs. Yet people still
pay for advanced interoperability
features. |
Once
standards emerge, it will
evolve much like the market
for RDBMS. There will
be consolidation and 2
or 3 key players with
bulk of the market share
will emerge. At the same
time there will still
be a few niche players.
|
small
no of niece products and
some major vendors with
workflow products in the
context of bp suites |
Not
too slow, but certainly
not as crazed as the technology
boom. I would compare
it to the home PC. A few
people here and there,
and eventually once the
technology got there everyone
jumped on the bandwagon. |
As
products and process become
standardized, the desire
for workflow management
and process automation
will expand. However,
like all technology cycles,
workflow space will need
to consolidate. Currently,
there are too many products
available and many do
not provide the functionlaity
required by many firms. |
It
will die and will be replaced
by integration technology
(in which workflow management
plays a very small, yet
important role). |