CommerceQuest and BPEL modeling

CBR Online reports:

So far, CommerceQuest has announced the ability for models built in the third-party Corel Corp iGrafx and Mindjet Ltd modeling tools to be executed within its Traxion Enterprise Business Process Management Suite. The company said the integration of the popular process models iGrafx and Mindjet with an execution engine, such as its Traxion BPMS, should enable organizations to complete the entire business process lifecycle with combined analysis, mapping, and execution capabilities.

But in an interview with ComputerWire, CommerceQuest CTO Paul Roth said: "We want to take that further and work with BPMI.org on a standard which will close the gap between models and the execution manager." Roth said that such a standard would open BPEL (business process execution language), a standard for executing business processes, to a much wider audience. He said BPEL is "very limited, because to use BPEL today you need to create proprietary interfaces [between the model and BPEL], so then you are locked into one vendor's models or engine."

There seems to be a general consensus appearing in the BPEL execution model. Better modeling tools a the higher level is another facet which will make BPEL's adoption universal.