SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE This special focus illustrates how Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Intelligence (BI) are increasingly intertwined. Linking business intelligence and business process management creates stronger operational business intelligence. Users seek more intelligent business process capabilities in order to remain competitive within their fields and industries. BPM vendors realize they need to improve their business processes, rules and event management offerings with greater intelligence or analytics capabilities. THE BUSINESS VALUE OF BPM AND WORKFLOW Introduces new key concepts and sets out the business case for workflow technology and BPM. This perspective is covered by papers that provide practical information on Business Process Management (including case studies) designed for an audience of business users. STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY BPM standards have evolved from technical nuance to a business imperative. This perspective is covered by papers on system structure and values, operation and scalability issues, written for an audience of Information Technology (IT) professionals.