Does Web Services Management provide orchestration?
Before answering this question it is important to first describe the concept of orchestration. From a Hewlett Packard White Paper “Web Services Orchestration – A Review of Emerging Technologies, Tools, and Standards”: “The industry has used a number of terms to describe how components can be connected together to build complex business processes. Workflow and document management systems have existed as a means to handle the routing of work between various resources in an IT organization. These resources might include people, systems, or applications, and typically involve some human intervention. Business process management systems (BPMS) have also been used to enable a business to build a tops-down process design model, consisting of various integration activities (e.g., integration to a legacy system). BPMS systems would typically cover the full lifecycle of a business process, including the modeling, executing, monitoring, management, and optimization tasks. With the introduction of
