Change Agent: Process Modeling Will Deliver on SOA's 'IT Agility' - Yahoo! News: "Perhaps the most significant advance of business process management over its workflow and enterprise application integration ancestors is the integration of modeling with executable process design. Once strictly a standalone technology, process modeling has become a standard feature of BPM suites, which then go on to execute and monitor the modeled processes. By including a modeling tool in the suite, BPMS vendors give process owners on the business side a way to assert direct influence over the IT implementation."