Some technology terms come and go fleetingly. Remember push technology? Others, like Business Process Management or Service-Oriented Architecture, will be with us until they are mastered and become deeply embedded in the computing infrastructure we all take for granted.

This week, JargonSpy takes a look at Business Process Management (BPM) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and one that is just emerging, Business Process Expert (BPX). From the JargonSpy's point of view, unless you start thinking of the first two as a matched set, and then find people to play the role described by the third, you are going to be in a world of pain.