Workflow languages like BPEL are broadly adopted by industry to integrate the heterogeneous applications and data stores of an enterprise. Leading vendors provide extensions to BPEL that allow for a tight integration of data processing capabilities into the process logic. Business processes exploiting these capabilities show a remarkable potential for optimization. In this demonstration, we present PGM/F, a framework for the optimization of data processing in such business processes.

Over the last years, data management products as well as workflow products have established themselves as indispensable building blocks for advanced IT systems in almost all application areas. Recently, many vendors have created innovative product extensions that combine service-oriented frameworks with powerful workflow and data management capabilities. In this paper, we discuss several workflow products from different vendors with a specific focus on their SQL support. We provide a comparison based on a set of important data management patterns and illustrate the characteristics of various approaches by means of a running example.