Business Process Management Solutions Performance Tuning and Configuration

Business Process Management (BPM) solutions provide full integration between business and IT requirements, ensuring that the business requirement adapt more easily to the environmental changes. Given that today's business environment is characterized by ever growing dynamism, the use of BPM solutions can provide additional consistency and opportunities for rapid alignment to change. In this article we discus some of the standards and technologies for BPM solutions, we present several proposals for the lifecycle of a business process and also the main stages of our own proposal for a methodology for developing a BPM solution. Also we analyze one of the most popular BPM solutions on the market (Web Sphere Business Process Management suite) and present some key tuning and deployment guidelines.