Long-Running Transaction Support Is Important To Your BPM And SOA Success

The growing enterprise adoption of business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) is driving increased demand to support the long-running transactions (LRTs) common to the loosely coupled systems that BPM and SOA enable. Doing this without help from middleware can be a huge challenge, especially in heterogeneous systems that manage large numbers of process exceptions. Although middleware won't be the right answer for everyone, the LRT support that some BPM suites offer — and more particularly integration-centric suites — is an increasingly viable option. And as a wider range of industries adopts BPM and SOA, usage of LRTs is now an option that architects should seriously consider for industries beyond the usual early adopters — financial services and telcos.