Ideas on Improving the Business-IT Alignment in BPM Enabled by SOA

In recent years, Business Process Management (BPM) enabled by Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) proved to be a successful in improving the Business-IT alignment. Today, BPM enabled by SOA requires transformation between process models. Primarily, because specifications used for designing business process models and executable business process models differ. Process model transformation expresses itself as the Business-IT gap reducing potential operational alignment of the business and IT. In this paper, we review and classify state-of-the-art solution for the operational Business-IT alignment in BPM enabled by SOA. For solutions classification, we define three distinct types of approaches: methodological, transformation and enhancement. We discuss each type characteristics and its main strengths and weaknesses. Moreover, for each type, we provide examples from literature and discuss them. Based on existing works strengths and weaknesses we give ideas for a new solution based on an enhancement approach. The proposed solution has potential to improve Business-IT alignment through simplification of the BPM enabled by SOA.