Managing, measuring, and improving business processes hasn’t always involved enterprise architects. This is changing as Business Process Management (BPM) is increasingly adopted as an approach that ties together the organizational and analytical aspects of business processes with IT infrastructure that can execute and manage those processes. Products such as BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite support this close collaboration between business and IT, and enterprise architects are now frequently involved in the evaluation and purchasing decisions for these BPM products. Click here to read how Jesper Joergensen, director of product marketing for BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite, answers some of the most common BPM questions asked by enterprise architects.

ESBs address the challenge of creating a dynamic deployment infrastructure for SOA. But BEA believes architects should look for more than the core functions of an ESB, in order to develop truly enterprise-class solutions.

An independent firm, GCR Custom Research, recently surveyed more than 150 SOA decision-makers and influencers across North America and Europe about financial justification for SOA, specifically costs, benefits, and risks. Read how SOA adoption has matured in the past year—and how architects and CIOs are taking a leadership role.

The latest version of BEA JRockit Mission Control provides tremendous detail about the JVM and the running Java application while adding virtually no overhead. This allows organizations to approach zero downtime: monitoring, diagnosing, and profiling production environments without impacting application users. Built on the Eclipse framework, BEA JRockit Mission Control 2.0 leverages users’ familiarity with Eclipse to enable them to become productive right away.

The best commercial Eclipse-based tool can now make your job a little easier. New in the 3.3 release of BEA Workshop Studio, Web Folder Mapping allows you to assemble source files in a folder organization that matches your needs—not those of the server or the IDE. All BEA Workshop Studio 3.3 features then work transparently with the mapped files.

The new BEA SOA and Service Infrastructure curriculum now offers architects a complete learning path, including strategic concepts, architectural concepts, and technology overview and insights. Too busy to attend a course? Many of the courses are also available as online self-study.

Log in to this Webinar at 9:00 AM PST on December 20th for a preview of PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) running on BEA WebLogic Server. The BEA PHP implementation runs inside the same JVM as the server, so it can offer all the advantages that BEA WebLogic Server does: scalability, reliability, manageability, and connectivity to your existing enterprise Java assets.

This summer, enterprise architects gathered for exclusive BEA Arch2Arch Summits in San Francisco and Budapest. There they heard from BEA experts and were treated to straight-from-the-trenches reports from two customers, both one year into their SOA implementations. Even if you missed the Summit, don’t miss out on the technical breakouts, the insights from BEA thought leaders, and the case studies shared at the event. Presentations are now online.