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By Jon Pyke

There are many myths and misunderstandings surrounding the market sector that is known as Business Process Management. One of the major misunderstandings normally comes to light during discussions regarding standards. Whenever I speak to anyone on the subject it soon becomes clear that the standards bodies have simply failed to get the message across.

Keith Swenson, Technical Committee Chairman of the Workflow Management

Coalition (WfMC), addressed an audience over 150 business process professionals on the "BPM Standards Organizations" panel, at the BPM Think Tank organized by OMG.

January 1998, 2nd Draft for Discussion

This document describes the current status of the WfMC standardisation program and identifies the current work on object related standards which includes interface bindings for both OLE Automation and OMG/IDL objects. The scope of the current Reference Model is discussed, plus possible extensions to support a lower granularity component architecture, internal to the workflow enactment service, as a complement to existing work focused on the service functions provided at the boundary of a workflow enactment service. This is postulated on the basis of defining a common underlying object model which can be mapped to the two important component architectures emerging in the industry, the OMG object architecture and services and the ActiveX/DCOM architecture.

October 1, 2006 - The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) announced that it has selected Massachusetts-based Transformation+Innovation to provide general management and secretariat services to the international organization. Founded in August, 1993, the WfMC is a non-profit, international organization of workflow vendors, users, analysts as well as university and research groups.

October 13, 2005. Seoul, Korea. The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) announced here today

that Robert Shapiro has been selected as the 2005 recipient of the prestigious Marvin L Manheim Award.