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Business processes reach across enterprises and partners, and require a range of complex functions. As the reach and range of your business processes increase, consider (a) moving these functions into an integration network, such as an enterprise service bus (ESB); and (b) recursively encapsulating your business processes as services. The resulting architecture is agile without redundant and confusing technology. 'Reach' and 'Range' The metric of distance describes how far the business process reaches to interact with the entities it orchestrates. Distance is relevant to two resources or services that are orchestrated by a business process management (BPM) tool. Consider what is important when a business process is deployed, managed, or updated. These activities are performed by company employees and systems in a coordinated fashion, so distance correlates to organi... (more)