Usually I leave the predictions to analysts and prophets. That’s because it is so much work to achieve, what they already have predicted – or to find out, that it did not work.
Nevertheless this is a conviction, that has grown over time and a goal to which I can even see the path to the solution already now.
My prediction is, that in the future there will not be Applications on the one side and Business Process Management on the other side. But Business Process Management enabled Applications.
My prediction is, that in the future, there will not be the decision “Should I implement it as an Application or model it in a Business Process Management Suite?” any more. Because with BPM enabled Applications this is the same thing.
Business Objects will be Process Objects and Processes will be Business Objects.
And it will solve many of the discontinuities we have today trying to unify the two worlds.
This is my prediction.