Why should you respond to this call for paper?

Driven by business demands for flexibility, agility and improved business performance in conjunction with the emergence of inter-operability standards together with technology advancements, our industry is going through the most significant transition since the emergence of departmental computing and client-server architectures.

Business Process Management, enabled by Service Oriented Architectures, will reshape our business landscapes like never before.

This affects all of us; business people looking for new and better ways to make money and grow their businesses, government officials looking to deliver services, technologists looking for ways to squeeze more out of IT budgets, individuals contemplating the impact that new ways of designing and running systems will have on their careers.

Our world is awash with change and there is much to learn as we equip ourselves for the challenges and opportunities of the decade ahead.

Who better to learn from than your peers who are in the midst of these challenges with you?

Who better to teach and inform than you, who finds yourself in the thick of these changes and developments?

Each of us has a responsibility to make our own contribution to the up-liftment of the African economy through the effectiveness and efficiency of our organisations. By contributing your knowledge and sharing your expertise with your peers and colleagues at SAPHILA 2007 you can fulfill this responsibility and showcase your accomplishments.