I’m working with Microsoft products for a long time, but all the abbreviations Microsoft uses, gives a lot of confusion. But I’m glad not only Microsoft uses a lot of abbreviations, but also my company and all the customers I worked for. I worked for 1 customer where they had a simple Word document from 1.5 MB about abbreviations.
Back to BPI. What is the meaning of BPI according to the sites from Microsoft:
- Business Process Integration
- Business Productivity Infrastructure
- Business Process and Integration
- Baseline Privacy Interface
- Business Process Improvement
- Bank of the Philippine Islands
- British Phonographic Industry
- etc
The second one is at the moment the most important, because it fits in the Microsoft Optimization strategy. Application Platform also fits within this Optimization strategy, where SOA and Business Processes are examples of some capabilities.
But, for this blog I’ll focus on Business Process Integration. This BPI is part of the Application Platform Optimization. In this I’m following Microsoft on BPI: “automate and optimize business processes both within their organization and across their customers, partners, and supply chains”. Central in this is the customer for who we are working for. They are in the lead. If they want an ESB, that is fine. If they want VB code for their integration, then we can talk about it. As long as their business runs smoothly, then I am a satisfied person.
