Comparison between BPM and Workflow

BPM truly creates the agile event driven enterprise business people have been dreaming of. Workflow is just a subset of BPM. Here are some of the differences between the two:

	BPM	Workflow
Focus	Focus is on process life cycle management	Focus is on Task Routing
Integration	EAI using standard adaptors and B2B integration using Open standards like HTTP, XML and Web Services	Tight coupling between integrated applications using custom API supplied by workflow vendor and third party products
Scope	Enterprise wide and across the value chain	Application & department specific
Process Modeling	Advanced process modeling with essential features like collaborative process design and process simulation	Limited
Reporting	Process metric reports and dashboard views	Basic reporting after the fact
Exception Management	Live process update using In-flight process and data update. And also side-by-side process version features	Very limited