BPM enabled by SOA is a discipline combining software capabilities and business expertise to accelerate process improvement and facilitate business innovation. Your organization must streamline business processes to become capable of responding rapidly to changing market conditions. And to create this responsive environment, you need to integrate your company's people, applications and information into your business processes. You also need to monitor, control and continuously improve business operations and can do this through Business Activity Monitoring (BAM). Achieving these goals can enable you to create more responsive business processes that go beyond meeting regulations and automating routine tasks -- helping you to improve your company's bottom line and meet your strategic business goals.