BPM Overview on InfoWorld

InfoWorld: The click-and-drag enterprise is a very good overview of BPM, and how BPEL fits in to the picture. Here's an excerpt:

“A business process needs to be completely defined independently from IT,” says Matt Quinn, director of technology marketing at Tibco, which acquired BPM pure-play Staffware last month. “It needs to be a business-focused view of what a business process constitutes. Of course, you can’t simply drive everything top-down — you do need to actually capture business processes at a technology level as well. But if you understand the business process from end to end, without having the constraint of IT initially, you’ve got a much broader context for really understanding what your business is.”