Dr. Alexander Samarin is an enterprise solutions architect who specializes in improving business process management (BPM) systems for optimal agility. His goal is to help enterprises easily evolve their BPM systems to implement business changes quickly through small, managed modifications. To achieve this, he advocates architecting BPM systems by properly designing, engineering, and modeling interconnected BPM artifacts and their relationships to anticipate and accommodate potential changes. His architectural framework provides guidance and recommendations for transforming existing IT systems into a coherent, flexible BPM/SOA solution through comprehensive models, patterns, and examples.