The document discusses the evolution and future of business process management (BPM) through enabling technologies. It covers:
1) How BPM has evolved from custom-coded integration between systems to comprehensive suites that support modeling, monitoring, rules, and optimization.
2) How service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides the infrastructure for BPM to orchestrate people and services into business processes.
3) Emerging standards for BPM notation, interchange, and the impact of Web 2.0 concepts like user-generated content, collaboration, and rich interfaces.
4) The future of BPM including software as a service, collaborative modeling, process tagging/feeds, and browser-based design.